"One Eyed Jacks" with Marlon Brando

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This is one of my all time favorite westerns and I finally got it on DVD yesterday in a thrift shop. This movie is just different. It's probably a "you love it or you hate it" film. Brando directed it. The "hero" is a psychotic bad guy getting revenge on another bad guy. Brando's character lies so much throughout the movie you don't know if he actually experiences a little redemption in the end or is still lying. And it takes place by the beach. How many westerns actually show the ocean? This movie seems made much later than 1960. Anti heroes kicked in a little later, and he isn't even a hero. Just a very bad guy doing bad stuff. But he sure wears some cool mexican outfits as he broods around shooting people.

 
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I never saw it but remember my older brother going to see it in 1961. I got the idea he didn't quite like it--or didn't quite understand it--but he walked around doing bad Brando impressions for the next week or so.

Just added it to my Netflix queue.
 
I love the old Westerns, will have to keep an eye open for it. Sorry couldn't resist...:o:)
 
It's one of my favorite westerns, also. Karl Malden is great in it, as well as Brando. I think Brando was the director, went way over budget and got behind schedule. Maybe someone had to brought in to rescue the film. You might look it up on IMDB.com.

The print I have on DVD isn't very good. The color is faded.
 
And Ben Johnson at his greasy bad guy best. Slim Pickens is a bully just aching to get his comeuppance & at least 2 of the Mexican actors had small parts in The Magnificent Seven.
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feralmerril said:
The heck with brando, watch it to see katy juerodo! See was my favorite, also on high noon. You imagine ernest borgnine married to her? Lucky guy!
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Meriril, that's Katy Jurado (née María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García). And I agree!

I remember first time I saw High Noon as a little boy. Sure, Grace Kelly was a beauty, but Kate Jurado dang near set my pants afire! And I have been transfixed by the exotic ladies ever since!
 
A typical thread, starts out lauding one thing, gets diverted to boy's fantasies. Well, I'll just have to take this thread in another direction: Brando's horse.:)

And another turn: Hank Worden, of Ole Mose fame in The Searchers. Great ending for him in the Brando film.

And another turn, back to Brando, who in trying to reload his Colt in the saloon dropped his cartridges on the floor. It was, of course, an outtake.
 
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