One-Eyed Jacks

Name: One-Eyed Jacks
Genre: Western, Drama
Released: 1961-03-30
Duration: 2 h 21 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens

The motion picture that starts its own tradition of greatness.

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Timing: 2:21 (141 min)

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Actors and characters

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Release date

1961-03-30

Country

United States

Production

Pennebaker Productions

Genre

Western, Drama

Budget

$6 000 000

Revenue

$4 300 000

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Director

Marlon Brando

Actors

Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Larry Duran, Sam Gilman, Timothy Carey, Miriam Colon, Elisha Cook Jr.
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Sam Peckinpah, Rod Serling

Producer

Frank P. Rosenberg, Walter Seltzer, George Glass

Operator

Charles Lang

Composer

Hugo Friedhofer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Archie Marshek
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Brando took the film away from Stanley Kubrick after they failed to agree on character development.
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.
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.
Filming began on December 2, 1958, and was not completed until the fall of 1960.
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 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.

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