One-Eyed Jacks is a film with a troubled history. It was almost the feature debut of emerging television director Sam Peckinpah, who penned the original draft screenplay, and it was almost the only Western to be directed by Stanley Kubrick before he too left the project. The eventual director was Marlon Brando, stepping behind the camera for the first and only time. Brando is Rio, a bank-robber who is double-crossed by his friend and mentor, Dad (Karl Malden). Rio is imprisoned for his role in the crime, but escapes with thoughts of revenge. He tracks down Dad only to find that, during those years spent behind bars, Dad has used his ill-gotten wealth to become the sheriff of Monterey... A strange, baroque Western, One-Eyed Jacks met with bewilderment by critics and audiences upon release, but slowly developed a cult following despite a succession of below-par masters. Now, thanks to an outstanding new 4K restoration from Martin Scorsese s The Film Foundation, audiences can finally see the film as intended once again and recognise the masterpiece it always was.
Revenge and gold are his only motiviation! Directed by and starring Academy Award winner Marlon Brando.
Marlon Brando directs and stars in this western tale of betrayal and revenge. Brando stars as Johnny Rio, a man betrayed by his best friend, Dad, and sentenced to serve five years in prison. On his release he seeks out his nemesis (now sheriff of Monterey) and seduces his step-daughter, leading the Sheriff to throw him back into prison. His ire now stoked even more, Johnny seeks out Dad for the final showdown.
Brando(""Rio"") stars with Karl Malden(""Dad Longworth"") as two bank robbers on the run from the Federales in Mexico They are pinned down and only one can get away to get fresh horses for their escape. Dad is the one to go but greed gets the best of him. He takes off with the money and leaves Rio to be captured and sent to a Mexican Jail for 5 long years. When he escapes he goes looking for Dad finally finding him in Monterey California where ""Dad"" is now a tough Sheriff and has a beautiful step-daughter Louisa. The action and the romance heat up as Rio is bent on revenge and falls for the beautiful Louisa.
One Eyed Jacks is a classic western in which Marlon Brando ('Rio') stars with Karl Malden ('Dad Longworth') as two bank robbers on the run from the Federales in Mexico They are pinned down and only one can get away to get fresh horses for their escape. Dad is the one to go but greed gets the best of him. He takes off with the money and leaves Rio to be captured and sent to a Mexican Jail for 5 long years. When he escapes he goes looking for Dad finally finding him in Monterey California where 'Dad' is now a tough Sheriff and has a beautiful step-daughter Louisa. The action and the romance heat up as Rio is bent on revenge and falls for the beautiful Louisa. A remarkably strong cast feature in a 'Cain and Abel' plot redefined with Western terms in MGM's Vengeance Valley. Burt Lancaster stars as ranch-hand Owen Daybright who has been raised as a son by rancher Arch Stroble (Ray Collins). When Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) fathers an illegitimate child he tried to shift the responsibility and wrath of the vengeance-seeking brothers of the baby's mother (Sally Forrest) on to Owen whilst Joanne Dru co-stars as Lee's long-suffering wife Jen who harbors a secret yen for Owen.
Revenge and gold are his only motiviation! Marlon Brando plays Rio a ruthless outlaw who has been double crossed by his partner Dad Longworth following a bank robbery. Whilst Rio plots his escape from jail with revenge planted firmly in his mind Longworth has become a sheriff... Directed by and starring Academy Award winner Marlon Brando.
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