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Release Date: 1961 Cast: Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Timothy Carey, Larry Duran, Katy Jurado, Sam Gilman, Marlon Brando, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson
Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Western, Revisionist Western One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio. It is also notable for what it almost was: a film directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah. Other members of the cast include Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado and Ben Johnson.
Rio (also called "The Kid"), his partner Dad Longworth, and a third man named Doc, rob a bank. The robbery is successful, but some Mexican Rurales attack and kill Doc. Dad and Rio manage to escape in the desert followed by a posse.
Rio figures the Rurales will be... MORE
One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio. It is also notable for what it almost was: a film directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah. Other members of the cast include Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado and Ben Johnson.
Rio (also called "The Kid"), his partner Dad Longworth, and a third man named Doc, rob a bank. The robbery is successful, but some Mexican Rurales attack and kill Doc. Dad and Rio manage to escape in the desert followed by a posse.
Rio figures the Rurales will be "swarming all over us inside an hour." One partner might take the remaining pony and ride to a little jacalito down the canyon about five miles and return with fresh mounts. They shake for it, with Rio fixing the deal so his pal Dad can be the one to go.
Dad gets to a corral, strapping the swag bag onto a fresh pony, but he gets second thoughts. He casts one eye towards a point on the ridge sure to be taken by the Rurales, and with the other he gazes off in the opposite direction out past a low-lying treeline towards the border and safety. One way leads to danger and a poor chance at surviving with LESS
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