One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 141m
Director: Marlon Brando
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Synopsis:
A bankrobber gets out of the pen and tracks down the partner who double-crossed him years before, finding him to be sheriff of a Californian town.
Review:
Notorious as the vanity project on which Brando shot over a million feet of film, and originally in a cut lasting over five hours, this is in fact a Western with many points of interest alongside, or even because of, its self-indulgences. The supporting cast, including Pickens, Johnson, Jurado, Carey and Cook Jnr, makes it seem like a Peckinpah movie 'avant la lettre', as do the hispanic locations. The story is made the more compelling for the study of truth and lies embedded in the script, and much has been written about the father-son subtext (Malden's character name is Dad Longworth), further indicting the 'sins of the fathers' moral universe that was the American west and, by extension, the American present.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 141m
Director: Marlon Brando
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Synopsis:
A bankrobber gets out of the pen and tracks down the partner who double-crossed him years before, finding him to be sheriff of a Californian town.
Review:
Notorious as the vanity project on which Brando shot over a million feet of film, and originally in a cut lasting over five hours, this is in fact a Western with many points of interest alongside, or even because of, its self-indulgences. The supporting cast, including Pickens, Johnson, Jurado, Carey and Cook Jnr, makes it seem like a Peckinpah movie 'avant la lettre', as do the hispanic locations. The story is made the more compelling for the study of truth and lies embedded in the script, and much has been written about the father-son subtext (Malden's character name is Dad Longworth), further indicting the 'sins of the fathers' moral universe that was the American west and, by extension, the American present.
Country: US
Technical: col/Vistavision 141m
Director: Marlon Brando
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer
Synopsis:
A bankrobber gets out of the pen and tracks down the partner who double-crossed him years before, finding him to be sheriff of a Californian town.
Review:
Notorious as the vanity project on which Brando shot over a million feet of film, and originally in a cut lasting over five hours, this is in fact a Western with many points of interest alongside, or even because of, its self-indulgences. The supporting cast, including Pickens, Johnson, Jurado, Carey and Cook Jnr, makes it seem like a Peckinpah movie 'avant la lettre', as do the hispanic locations. The story is made the more compelling for the study of truth and lies embedded in the script, and much has been written about the father-son subtext (Malden's character name is Dad Longworth), further indicting the 'sins of the fathers' moral universe that was the American west and, by extension, the American present.