Soft Shoes vs The Mexican

Soft Shoes has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 5.9/10 for The Mexican). Soft Shoes is the shorter watch at 46m compared with 2h 3m. Soft Shoes is the older of the two (1925 against 2001). Both are comedy, crime, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Soft ShoesThe Mexican
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 5.9/10
Year19252001
Length46m2h 3m
GenresComedy, Crime, Romance, WesternAction, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country––
DirectorLloyd IngrahamGore Verbinski
Main castJames Quinn, John Steppling, Francis Ford, Harry Carey, Lillian RichDavid Krumholtz, Bob Balaban, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Gene Hackman

Synopsis

Soft Shoes

Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a…

The Mexican

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

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