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Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1961 DVD Release: 07/07/1998 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 21 mins Studio: Madacy Total Copies: 1 Genres: Western, Revisionist Western See Also: One-Eyed Jacks, One-Eyed Jacks, One-Eyed Jacks, One-Eyed Jacks, One Eyed Jacks, One-Eyed Jacks [Collector's Edition], One-Eyed Jacks, One Eyed Jacks

Western bandit Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) is betrayed by his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden). Escaping from prison, Rio learns that Longworth has become a wealthy and influential lawman. Rio thirsts for revenge, but bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. In the meantime, Rio spitefully seduces Longworth's adopted daughter, Louisa (Pina Pellicer). After killing a man in self-defense, Rio is publicly whipped by the powerful Longworth. When Rio's old gang accidentally kills a child during another holdup, Longworth has the perfect excuse to eliminate the troublesome Rio once and for all by hanging him. But that's not what happens at all. Stripped to its fundamentals, One-Eyed Jacks is a workable Western, worthy of perhaps 90 minutes' running time. But when Marlon Brando succeeded Stanley Kubrick in the director's chair, he allowed the film's 60-day shooting schedule to stretch into six months, and delivered a finished product running in excess of four hours. The current 141-minute version of One-Eyed Jacks isn't as ponderous as some critics have claimed, but it's still too much of a good thing. While Brando the director isn't precisely in the Kubrick class, Brando the actor delivers one of his finest and most focused performances (though he is upstaged throughout by Karl Malden). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Marlon Brando - Kid Rio
Karl Malden - Dad Longworth
Pina Pellicer - Louisa
Katy Jurado - Maria
Ben Johnson - Bob Emory

Marlon Brando's directorial debut One-Eyed Jacks comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. There are neither subtitles nor closed captions on this release. Supplemental materials include a biography of the director and an interactive trivia quiz. This is a decent release from Madacy. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide