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To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorable, crazy movie

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

One-Eyed Jacks is a solid, violent and melancholic western directed by MARLON BRANDO. STANLEY KUBRICK worked on this movie for a while as a director before him and Brando fell out over the casting of SPENCER TRACY (Brando wanted KARL MALDEN for the role).BRANDO is at his smoldering and mumbling best here. And he is nearly bursting out of his tight clothes in most of the scenes. There is great chemistry between Brando and Pina Pellicer. The scenes between them are very very intense. And Brando's introduction scene is excellent.The film is extensively filmed near a beach - I haven't seen too many westerns with a beach in them. It is a bit long at 140 minutes, but it is pretty gripping throughout.(7/10)

This movie has it all and then some. One-Eyed Jacks will trick you in a lot of ways as it will come off as a one dimensional western revenge story(which wouldn't have been a bad thing at all) but as the layers keep getting peeled away as the movie progresses, the viewer will find out that there is much more to this movie than meets the eye. It is a story about finding ones self and finding the best, most longing true love one can imagine. The chemistry between Brando and Pina Pellicer is one for the ages. It's as if you're waking up from a dream where you had a great romance and you long to go back to sleep to find that romance again. That's exactly how the longing feels with Brando and Pellicer(especially when Brando is in jail). And that Jail scene where Pellicer is pulled away by the deputy is one of the best scenes I've ever seen, it was so real, passionate, in your face and gritty. Pellicer fights for Brando in all his flaws in that scene. And Brando has a great scene where he's about to blast away Ben Johnson's character as Brando fights for Pellicer's honor. A great character study, a great love story and a great western. Brando and Malden are in top form. After watching this movie I thought I would find Pina Pellicer to have been nominated for at least 2-5 academy awards with winning one or two. I was very sad to learn she died only just a few years after this movie. In some way, I feel Pina Pellicer was the female version of James Dean without the fame. She was a fantastic actress, and what she could have done on the screen, oh what she could have done, she was unbelievable. This is a must see for her and Brando.

A seriously underrated film, Marlon Brando again brings his characteristic masculine energy to the screen with superb acting, playing the part of a bank robber named Rio - another character which stirs the mind into a state of cognitive dissonance, an anti-hero blurring the line between the good and the bad. The supporting actors also give a great performance, and the cinematography is notably good. Directed by Brando himself, the plot presents a variety of characters who have much more depth than they may at first seem to possess. It is a brilliant example of a Western, which not only embraces the genre but excels within it's medium. Sometimes perhaps the pacing could have been better thought out, but overall this is a film that is definitely worth watching.

In Sonora, Mexico in 1880 , Rio (Marlon Brando , the character of Rio originally was based on Billy the Kid), his pal Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) and a third man, Doc (Hank Worden) are robbing a bank. As the bandits escape from the town with a loot . The bandits flee but the Mexican mounted police trail the bunch to the mountains . The mounted police follow and trap the bandits atop a desert hill (Death Valley that bears remarkable resemblance to Almeria desert where were filmed lots of Spaghetti) , with one of their horses shot . Their only option is for one of them to ride their single horse to a little post down the canyon and return with two fresh mounts . But Dad double-crosses him and flees . Rio is detained and locked in Sonora Prison but five years later he breaks out . Then Rio seeks vengeance against his former friend Dad who lives now as a sheriff married to a Mexican woman (Katy Jurado) and an adopted daughter (Pina Pellicer who sadly committed suicide a few years later) .Riveting Western with psychological tones is stunningly performed , richly photographed and well directed , though overlong . Marlon Brando took over the reigns of filmmaking by first and only time . Very good performances from main duo : Brando as an obstinate revenger and Karl Malden who steals the show as his double-dealing former partner . Superb support interpretations from Ben Johnson , Timothy Carey , and Slim Pickens , Katy Jurado , both of whom a few years later played as an intimate couple in ¨Pat Garret and Billy the Kid¨. Lively and adequate musical score by Hugo Friedhofer . Striking cinematography by Charles Lang , being Paramount's last release in VistaVision and filmed on location in California , the following places : Cypress Point, Pebble Beach,Death Valley National Park, Monterey Peninsula,Pebble Beach, Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, Seventeen Mile Drive, Warner Ranch, Calabasas, California, USA.Marlon Brando's inexperience behind the camera was obvious on set , he took the direction from Stanley Kubrick, who originally was slated to direct the film. He shot six times the amount of footage normally used for a film at the time , he was indecisive in his only filmmaking effort and ran extremely overlong in getting the film finished , in spite of the problems , the film resulted to be visually striking and with interesting character study . Marlon Brando's first cut of the film was allegedly five hours long. He was reportedly unhappy with the final product, despite its box-office success , Paramount eventually took the film away from him and re-cut it as Marlon Brando's original cut of the movie was over five hours long . Rating : Better than average despite troubles during filming and the result is a terrific outing in this Western genre .