Country: USA
Year: 1961
Duration: 141'
The owner of the rights to the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider, Brando decides to personally direct the movie, after having passed on Sam Peckinpah and, above all, on Stanley Kubrick due to their strong artistic differences. After a bank heist in Mexico, the two bandits Rio (Brando) and Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) go on the lam but Longworth betrays his accomplice, leaving him in the hands of the authorities. Years later, after escaping from prison, Rio discovers that Longworth has become the sheriff of Monterey, California, and he decides to get his revenge. But his love for Louisa (Pina Pellicer), Longworth’s stepdaughter, complicates things… One of the most unusual westerns of the 1960s, already part of that process of revisionism which the genre underwent during that decade, and whose greatness is recognized today.
Biography
film director
Marlon Brando
(Omaha, 1924-Los Angeles, 2004) One of the greatest and best-known actors in film history, Academy Awards as best actor in a leading role for On the Waterfront (1955) and The Godfather (1972), he directed only one movie, One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
FILMOGRAFIA
One-Eyed Jacks (I due volti della vendetta, 1961).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Marlon Brando. STORY: from the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones di Charles Neider. SCREENPLAY: Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Charles Lang. EDITING: Archie Marshek. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Hal Pereira, J. McMillan Johnson, Robert R. Benton, Sam Comer. COSTUMES: Yvonne Wood. MUSIC: Hugo Friedhofer. CAST: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., Ray Teal, Sam Gilman, Larry Duran, Lisa Lu. PRODUCTION: Frank P. Rosenberg per Paramount Pictures, Pennebaker Productions.
CONTACT: Park Circus www.parkcircus.com
