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.
In the late seventies celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast and crew ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, ApocalypseNow. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film’s narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed. Compiled from rare on set footage filmed by Coppola’s wife Eleanor and interviews with the cast, Hearts Of Darkness is the ultimate feature-length documentary, capturing the explosive events that lead to Apocalypse Now becoming an acknowledged classic.
Early in 1959 Marlon Brando began one of the most unique projects of his career-directing himself in One Eyed Jacks. Taken from Charles Neider's novel of the same name is a tale of revenge set in Mexico. Stanley Kubrik was originally signed to direct but he and Brando failed to agree on much of anything and he was dismissed four weeks prior to filming. Marlon decided to direct the movie himself. The movie went well over budget. On completion Brando the director had set a new record by exposing over one million feet of film stock. It's the Old West of 1880 and Brando stars as Kid Rio who along with his partner Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who are caught holding up a Mexican bank. Longworth gets away and allows his partner to get caught and go to jail. When Rio is released five years later he goes out to seek revenge however he is surprised to find his partner is married with a stepdaughter and sheriff of a town. Complications set in when Rio himself falls in love with the stepdaughter.
Revenge and gold are his only motiviation! Directed by and starring Academy Award winner Marlon Brando.
Contains some of Brando's finest but lesser known performances: Burn The Formula Bedtime Story The Men One Eyed Jacks (also directed by Brando). Burn (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo 1969): (English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono / Fullscreen) Manipulative English mercenary Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is posted to a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean. Once there he uses his skills to engineer a slave revolt as part of his calculated plans for the English to seize control of t
The Outlaw (Dir. Howard Hughes 1943): Jane Russell plays a busty siren who steals the heart of Billy the Kid in this Howard Hughes/Howard Hawks-directed story which centres on the rivalrous tentative friendships between Billy Doc Holiday and Pat Garrett. Vengeance Valley (Dir. Richard Thorpe 1941): An unusually adult Western for its time Vengeance Valley (1951) gave Burt Lancaster his first Western role. His athletic prowess made him perfect for the genre and he'd
Outlaw Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner Dad Longworth (Karl Marden) and sentenced to five years in a Mexican prison. When he escapes he has revenge on his mind and tracks Longworth down to a town in California where Longworth has become the local Sheriff! This is Brando's only directorial film a position he took somewhat reluctantly replacing Stanley Kubrick after early shooting.
14 films in a 5 DVD set : a rip roarin' roundup of frontier features spanning seven decades of western action from early classics such as The Great Train Robbery Hell's Hinges and The Vanishing American to later greats including The Painted Desert Santa Fe Trail The Outlaw and One-Eyed Jacks. Watch legendary stars such as John Wayne Errol Flynn Gary Cooper Clark Gable and Marlon Brando just to name a few! The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Red Man's View (1909) Hell's Hinges (1916) The Vanishing American (1925) Fighting Caravans (1931) The Painted Desert (1931) The Desert Trail (1935) Trouble in Texas (1937) Santa Fe Trail (1940) Arizona Bound (1941) The Outlaw (1943) Abilene Town (1946) Daniel Boone Trail Blazer (1956) One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
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.
MARLON BRANDO took over the direction of this film from Stanley Kubrick and created one of the best western's in the genre shot in glorious Technicolor Brando captured the rugged terrain of the American desert and the beauty of Monterey's sea coast as his character a ruthless outlaw Rio seeks revenge over cohort Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) after being double crossed and left to rot in prison Longworth has used their gold to become the local sheriff but has always lived in fear of the day when Rio comes looking for him.
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.
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio (Marlon Brando) to be captured. After five long years in a brutal Mexican prison Rio escapes to hunt down Dad Longworth and get his revenge. Longworth is now a respectable sheriff in California and has been living in fear of Rio's return. An excellent performance by Brando as both star and director in this classic Oscar nominated western.
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.
Made in a golden age of Hollywood dominated by rugged and charismatic leading men real Westerns produced some of the most enduring gun-slinging Stetson wearing spur bearing cinematic characters of all time. This Special Collector's Box Set celebrates three of the very best. Set Comprises: Angel And The Bad Man (1947): Quirt Evans (John Wayne) is an all round bad guy. Whilst in their care of a Quaker family after being shot he falls in love with the beautiful Penelope (Gail Russell). Quirt finds himself choosing between Penelope's gentle world and his own nomadic and unforgiving ways. One Eyed Jacks (1961): On the run from the law after a Mexican bank robbery Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) leaves his partner Rio (Marlon Brando) to be captured. After five long years in a brutal jail Rio escapes to hunt down Longworth and take his revenge. Vengeance Valley (1951): Rancher Archie Stroble's natural son Lee (Robert Walker) has always been envious of step-brother Owen (Lancaster) who in turn has spent his life pulling Lee out of trouble. But when Lee fathers an illegitimate child it leads to a life-threatening confrontation between the vengeance-seeking brothers.
The Outlaw:The Outlaw is a fascinating Western with a determindly off-beat story about Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid coming to conflict over Holliday's stolen horse and the voluptuous halfbreed played by Jane Russell. The script is often disarmingly tongue in cheek, and there is a weird eroticism to the film.;
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