The Wild One
1954
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After pulling a bank heist in Mexico, the outlaw Rio (Marlon Brando) and his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden), make a run for it, but Dad has bigger plans than freedom. He betrays Rio and ...
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- Marlon Brando
- Marlon Brando
- Western, Drama
One-Eyed Jacks (1961): A 36-year-old Brando plays Rio, a bank robber who after a Mexican robbery turned sideways is betrayed by his partner Dad Longworth, played by Karl Malden. After five years in a Sonoran Desert, Rio breaks out and looks for revenge on Dad.
One-Eyed Jacks Reviews. [It's] either an enormously ambitious but uneven work at worst, or one of the greatest Westerns ever filmed, as well as one of the most fascinating one-and-done directorial ...
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- Picture 10/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 6/10
- Closing
A western like no other, One-Eyed Jacks combines the mythological scope of that most American of film genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando, all suffused with Freudian overtones and male anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures the rugged landscapes of California’s Central Coast and Mexico’s Sonoran Deser...
Marlon Brando’s only directorial effort, One-Eyed Jacks, receives a much needed upgrade from Criterion, who present the film on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 4K restoration of the film undertaken by Universal Pictures and The Film Foundation, and was scanned from the ori...
Also coming off surprisingly well is the lossless linear PCM 1.0 mono soundtrack. Sound quality is good, with no distortion or noise that I could detect, and despite it not being the most lively or robust track, range and fidelity are both adequate. It’s a solid, above average mono presentation.
Surprisingly the film only comes with a handful of features starting with a short 3-minute introduction by Martin Scorsese. Filmed by The Film Foundation around the time of the film’s special presentation at Cannes in early 2016, the director just talks a little about the history of the film and how it was restored from its original VistaVision pri...
The supplements are good, if minimal, but the digital presentation is what sells this. It really looks striking and on that alone this disc is well worth picking up. BUY AT:
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Nov 24, 2016 · Brando’s vastly influential psychological western is finally accorded proper respect, and allowed to let its unhinged freak flag fly. As Martin Scorsese says in the introduction recorded for this Blu-ray, One-Eyed Jacks serves as a bridge between old and new Hollywood. Broadly speaking, old Hollywood was firstly concerned with filmmaking as a ...
One-Eyed Jacks: Directed by Marlon Brando. With Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson. After robbing a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner Rio to be captured by the Rurales.
One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American Western film directed by and starring Marlon Brando, his only directorial credit. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, "Dad" Longworth. The supporting cast features Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in ...
