Goin' South (1978)
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. small town, texas, anti hero, dark comedy, gold rush, gold mine, marriage of convenience, outlaw, battle of the sexes, 1860s, post american civil war