One-Eyed Jacks
Short description
After a bank robbery in Mexico, Rio is captured by the authorities while his partner Dad Longworth escapes with the stolen gold. Rio spends five years in prison before he gets out and goes looking for the man who abandoned him. He finds Dad living a respectable life as a sheriff in a California town, with a wife, Maria, and a stepdaughter, Louisa. Rio's arrival unsettles that life and sets the two former partners on a collision course.
Marlon Brando directs for the only time in his career and stars as Rio, with Karl Malden as Dad Longworth. Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens and Larry Duran appear in supporting roles. The screenplay is credited to Sam Peckinpah, Rod Serling and Guy Trosper, and Frank P. Rosenberg produced. The production cost about 6 million dollars and returned roughly 4 million worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 7.1 from around 15,000 votes, while TMDB shows 6.8 from a much smaller number of votes. A film critics' rating of 6.5 from 17 reviews places it close to the audience scores. The film runs 141 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming began on December 2, 1958, and was not completed until the fall of 1960.
- Brando took the film away from Stanley Kubrick after they failed to agree on character development.
- Marlon Brando's lack of directorial experience consistently affected the film's production. He used six times more film than necessary for shooting, was constantly behind schedule, and exceeded the film's budget. Ultimately, the film was taken from him and re-edited by Paramount Pictures.
- Marlon Brando's directorial debut.
- Marlon Brando shot a significant amount of footage that was ultimately not included in the film. The director's cut lasted over five hours.
- Marlon Brando's initial cut of the film ran for 4 hours and 42 minutes. Brando then grew tired of it, and the studio itself trimmed and re-edited the film, reducing its length to 141 minutes, after which they changed the ending, shooting a new one almost a year after principal photography had finished.
- Director and lead actor Marlon Brando insisted on actually drinking before filming a certain scene in order to better portray someone who was drunk, but he drank so much that he could neither act in front of the camera nor fulfill directorial duties, so he ordered filming to be postponed until tomorrow. The same thing happened the next day.
- Marlon Brando would sit on the ocean shore for hours waiting for the perfect sound of the surf.
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