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Perhaps you are aware of this Rico but in case you aren't, I thought I'd share this fact with a fellow "One-Eyed Jacks" fan...I just finished Charles Higham's biography of Marlon Brando. Not a great book- but it was a pleasant read and had some interesting facts.
Anyway- Higham writes that Brando's original version of "One Eyed Jacks" was four and a half hours! After a negative response from Producer Frank Rosenberg "that's not a picture, Marlon, it's just an assembly of footage", Brando returned to the cutting room and edited the film to a more manageable length.
Man! I wish I could see that cut extra footage in a Special Features DVD!
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In 1960 Brando had hired a young director, Stanley Kubrick to work on his next film under the Pennebaker banner, to be the actor's first big screen western, with a working title of A Burst of Vermillion. The pre-production process was troubled and presaged the eventual problems with the resulting film that would become know as One-Eyed Jacks. When no suitable replacement for Kubrick could be found [after kirk Duglas hired Kubrick to direct the troubled "Sparatcus"], Brando took the helm and made his directorial debut. This production is legendary in Hollywood for astonishing record of how much filmstock was shot. Back stories include such incidents as Brando keeping an expensive crew waiting for hours to get just the right light for a short scene and the cast getting drunk to add realism to a scene that ultimately proved to be unusable. Although the film was generally accorded positive—if bemused—reviews, it was also legendary for the costs accrued and the miles of film that was exposed to create the final result. One-Eyed Jacks features the first of the brutal scenes in which Brando's character is masochistically beaten as the Sheriff that he is seeking revenge against turns the tables and cruelly puts him to a bullwhip, then breaks his gun hand with the butt of a pistol. Ultimately, the film is a very enjoyable with many effective sequences and features excellent performances by Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens. The photography emerges as very beautiful and Brando's performance is as weighty as any that has been recorded in a western.Unfortunately, the DVD situation of One-Eyed Jacks is in a sorry state. There is a disc listed from the Platinum Disc Corporation for $6.99 that was released in November of 2000 and there is a listing that credits Unicorn Video with an upcoming release of the film in January of 2002, priced at $7.99. There is a version of the film on DVD that found in the "under $10" bin that is credited to a Canadian company called Madacy Entertainment. The quality of the disc is horrific and completely unwatchable. Fans of Brando and fans of westerns should go to http://www.criterionco.com/asp/ask_form.asp and request that Criterion buy the rights to One-Eyed Jacks and give it the release that it deserves in The Criterion Collection.
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...not quite as fanatically.Your post got to thinking why? - and I have to admit, I think they are *both* great westerns.
Perhaps it's the outstanding supporting cast in One-Eye that makes multiple viewings a pleasure. Not to mention the lines like "you gob a spit!" and "looks like you're the one with a gut Lon!"
There's nothing wrong with the arm wrestling match over the scorpions in The Appaloosa and I love how Matt Fletcher always seems to lose. Not a typical western script where four bad guys get gunned down in a gun draw quicker then the blink of an eye.
"Rio, You could spend the rest of your life looking for this man".
Rio: "Let's get goin'.Dad: I suppose you were wondering why I didn't show up back there.
Rio: Yeah, I thought about it.Rio: "Don't be doin' her like that."
Dad: "Oh, sure, kid. You'll get a FAIR trial. Then I'm gonna hang ya.
"Get up! Get on up you scum suckin' pig! "
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I think that's what make Brando so great - he always seems to create a character who inspires empathy
a man. Jimmy Stewart was a great war hero and all but unfortunately, he looked like a school marm and had a nerdy little voice.
Brando looked tough as hell and yet had a "soft" side. That's the secret of his superstardom: he appealed to both men and women, equally.
Yes, I did know that and I have heard/read that a longer "cult" version of the film has or is circulating in parts of Europe but I have never been able to get any more information on this. The studio also made Brando film another ending, the one we now see where Brando/Rio meets with Maria at the beach. Formerly, the film ended not only with Rio and the girl riding away out of Monterey but with the wounded and dying Malden/Dad shooting at them and hitting Maria.Thanks for thinking of me. Iam still waiting for a decent DVD transfer of the film, having tried all three of the Region I versions currently available.
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