One-Eyed Jacks
Starring:Rodolfo Acosta, Philip Ahn, Timothy Carey, Miriam Colon, Elisha Cook Jr., Margarita Cordova, John Dierkes, Larry Duran, Sam Gilman, Clem Harvey, Ben Johnson, Katy Jurado, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Joan Petrone, Slim Pickens, Ray Teal, Tom Webb, Hank Worden
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- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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One-Eyed Jacks
Starring: Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta , Philip Ahn , Nesdon Booth , Marlon Brando , and Timothy Carey
Director: Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta , and Marlon Brando
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Release Date: 2003-09-01 |
Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
Average customer rating:
- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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One-Eyed Jacks
Starring: Rodolfo Acosta , Philip Ahn , Timothy Carey , Miriam Colon , and Elisha Cook Jr.
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Release Date: 2002-01-22 |
Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
Average customer rating:
- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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One Eyed Jacks
Starring: Rodolfo Acosta , Philip Ahn , Timothy Carey , Miriam Colon , and Elisha Cook Jr.
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Release Date: 2003-10-07 |
Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
Average customer rating:
- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
Average customer rating:
- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
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- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
Average customer rating:
- The first and last film Brando directed
- You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
- Maybe the best western of all time.
- Very tough, realistic and softly romantic...
- You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!
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Customer Reviews:
The first and last film Brando directed.......2007-03-20
I'm not a big fan of westerns, but this one is definitely worth the 2 hours and 20 minutes of dedication it takes to watch it. The story is constantly progressing and 45 years after it was made it's still an amazing and interesting story.
Marlon Brando (directing and starring) really nailed this one. His Kid Rio is brilliantly calm, with a dark side brewing just under the surface. Five years after being left to be caught by the Mexican law by his bank robber sidekick Dad Longfellow, Rio sets out to find Longfellow and exact his revenge.
What starts out as a revenge film turns into so much more as the characters are developed and the plot thickens. The scenery is beautiful: the kind of rolling desert hills and oceanfront shots you wish there were more of today. Also, Slim Pickens makes a great appearance as a deputy.
The DVD quality isn't that great. As we get more and more used to HD quality images, older films like this one may be harder to watch, as suddenly everything in them seems hopelessly fuzzy, but that has more to do with current DVDs than with the original movie itself. Overall, it's a great watch and worth checking out.
You Can'tTrust A Bandit........2007-01-21
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Maybe the best western of all time........2007-01-11
Brilliant, brooding story of revenge in Mexico and California in the 1880's. Classic dialogue and fabulous photography in the only film ever directed by Marlon Brando. Ben Johnson (who plays Bob Amory and one of the great horsemen in John Ford's films) contributed much of the memorable one liners, such as, "Harvey Johnson's gonna be a famous name around these parts. You're gonna get yourself killed by a fellow called Rio." "It ain't him." "Wouldn't want to lose me a handful of brains trying to find out, now wouldya?" and "I gotta lot of funny things to do today, but lippin' with you ain't one of them."
Very tough, realistic and softly romantic..........2006-11-08
'One-Eyed Jacks' might be considered the most self-consciously Western of the sixties, and possibly of all time... It contains undoubted visual attributes, gorgeous photographic sequences of an immense sandy desert, and panoramas of the spectacular California coast... Not often does one get to see the sea in a Western... Another of the film's great assets is its beautiful music...
'One-Eyed Jacks' is slow, but very tough, realistic and softly romantic... The picture has excitement and violence...
Brando summons all the reserve of anger, inner ambivalence, and emotional complexity in his nature... As a cowboy, he is tough, cunning, soft-spoken, sentimental, vicious, and occasionally masochistic... He plumbs dark reserves of desolation and revenge with an inner ferocity that had always been a part of him but had never before emerged full-force... As a director, he is meticulous, with a keen eye for spectacular outdoor cinematography, and an instinctive sense for the visual expression of inner conflicts...
Karl Malden, whose surface friendliness and affability usually concealed either weakness or malice or both, is excellent as the ambitious, determined outlaw, and the volatile, treacherous, arrogant sheriff whose last poisonous spill: "You'll get a fair trial, and then I'm gonna hang you, personally.'
'One-Eyed Jacks is largely a story of vengeance... The film begins with two American outlaws operating in Mexico... Rio (Brando), a happy-go-lucky man who considers himself a Don Juan, and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), a crooked man looking for the opportunity to settle down...
They raid banks with real ease and spend their leisure time drinking and courting women... Rio appears as a somewhat cultured bandit with a weakness for aristocratic young ladies... He gives one of them his most "precious" possession, his mother's ring...
The Mexican police trail the pair and almost catch them at their lovemaking, but Rio and Dad fight their way out to the desert... The mounted police follow and the bandits are eventually trapped in the hills with one of their horses shot... Rio determines to stay... Dad promises to return with a fresh horse, but, tempted by two sacks of gold, he never come back...
Rio is captured and spends five years of his life in a brutal Mexican prison, until he makes an escape, with the company of a friend called Modesto (Larry Duran).
The embittered Rio is now a man bent on revenge... He learns in one Cantina that his ex-partner is the sheriff of a town called Monterey, and has taken himself a Mexican wife with a teen-age daughter... So he goes to visit him...
A guilt-ridden Dad finds Rio pleasant and apparently willing to forget past differences... He presents his family, and invites Rio to stay for supper...
Rio is in league with two bandits, Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) and Harvey Johnson (Sam Gilman), and they have come to Monterey to steal a bank... They grow impatient, but Rio assures them of his intention not only to rob the bank but to kill the sheriff as well...
Obviously, Longworth is not completely convinced about his friend, and becomes uneasy when Rio and his step-daughter show a romantic interest in one another... He well remembers Rio's past amorous adventures and he has no wish for anything that will delay Rio in Monterey...
The town engages in a fiesta, with the bank not planning to open for several days... While the respected sheriff joins the townspeople in their festivities, Rio seduces the tender Louisa...
The next morning, in a saloon, Rio approaches a drunk mistreating one of the house girls and knocks the man down... The drunk reaches for a shotgun and tries to shoot Rio in the back... But Modesto (as Bronson in 'Jubal') helps save Rio from the blast... The resultant outbursts Longworth to put his grisly double-cross into effect...
He takes Rio into the street and arrests him with the help of his deputies... He ties him to a horse rail, flogs him with a whip, smashes his right hand with a rifle butt, puts him on his horse and drives him out of town...
Rio retreats to a small fishing village on the coast with his partners and nurses himself back to health... Louisa visits him at his place to tell him she is in love... Rio's eyes are full of hate against her step father... He is entirely blind in his determination for revenge... Louisa wants him to forget, to leave his dark past for a brighter future... She leaves without mentioning she is expecting a baby...
For over a period of six weeks Rio practices with his gun in an intent to regain the use of his hand... Amory and Johnson grow impatient, and decide to make their own move... From here the action is carefully builds towards an explosion...
A carefully chosen supporting cast augmented the proceedings in fine style:
- Katy Jurado repeats her role of the loving and understanding mother...
- Ben Johnson plays the unscrupulous cowardly thief who avoids Brando's fury...
- The gentle Pina Pellicer does her earnest best to temper the intensities of her man...
- Slim Pickens plays the revolting deputy intimidated by an empty Derringer..
Brando's 'One-Eyed Jacks' comes on as taught and tight, acted with deep feeling and intense concentration... Brando and Malden play largely a stylistic battle...
You're a one-eyed jack in this town, Dad, but I seen the other side of your face!.......2006-08-31
Marlon Brando wrote and produced this western epic filmed on the California coast, most notably in Pebble Beach and Monterey before much of the current development. Brando and his co-star, Carl Malden, are in their prime in this film about two bandits on the run from the law. Rio (Brando) ends up getting caught and going to prison in Sonora. Dad (Malden) escapes and betrays Rio. He ultimately turns respectable and becomes the sherrif of a small town. When Rio escapes from prison, he sets out for revenge.
Malden is particularly good in this film. His homely intensity plays well against the Brando's concentrated sensuality. The chemistry between the two men is mesmerizing. Ultimately it is a tale of redemption, since Brando must leave his wicked ways in order to be worthy of a respectable woman's love. This is a terrific western that is now classic but must have been very unusual for its time.
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One Eyed Jacks
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Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
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Vengeance Valley.......2007-03-29
The story behind ONE-EYED JACKS appears to have been almost as interesting as the plot which unfolds on the screen. Rod "The Twilight Zone" Serling wrote a rejected treatment of the book this film was based on. The original director attached to the project was none other than a young Stanley Kubrick. Eventually