One-Eyed Jacks (1961) on Netflix
Rio and Dad Longworth rob a bank in Sonora, Mexico. Dad takes the gold and leaves Rio to the rurales. Rio is imprisoned, escapes five years later, and hunts Dad down.
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Plot summary
A bank robbery in Sonora, Mexico, leaves Rio and his mentor Dad Longworth with two saddlebags of stolen gold. Mexican rurales kill their partner Doc, and Dad escapes with the loot, leaving Rio to be captured and imprisoned. Five years later Rio gets out and travels to Monterey, California, where Dad is now the sheriff, just re-elected, married to Maria and afraid that Rio will come back. Rio wants revenge on him, and plans to rob the Monterey bank with his new partners Chico Modesto, Harvey Johnson and Bob Amory. He also meets Louisa, Dad's stepdaughter, and falls in love with her.
Cast
- Larry Duranas Chico Modesto
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
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- One-Eyed Jacks was budgeted at $2 million and scheduled for a three-month shoot, but Marlon Brando's perfectionism stretched principal photography to six months and the cost to $6 million; he shot 1 million feet of film.
- Stanley Kubrick stepped down from directing One-Eyed Jacks in November 1958, two weeks before production began, reportedly to get Lolita into production. Karl Malden was offered the directing job but declined, and Marlon Brando volunteered to direct instead.
- Marlon Brando fired Sam Peckinpah and hired Calder Willingham to further revise the One-Eyed Jacks script, then fired Willingham too; Guy Trosper was brought in as a final replacement.
- Brando's first cut of One-Eyed Jacks ran 4 hours and 42 minutes, and Paramount demanded it be shortened; Brando then left post-production from exhaustion, and the final 141-minute cut was assembled without him.
SPOILER
Brando returned to reshoot the ending of One-Eyed Jacks: in the original version Louisa died in the climactic shootout, but he decided the film should have a more upbeat ending.- Stanley Kubrick preferred Spencer Tracy for the role of Dad Longworth in One-Eyed Jacks, but Marlon Brando had already given the part to his friend Karl Malden, who was on the payroll of Pennebaker.
- One-Eyed Jacks was the last film shot in the VistaVision format until The Brutalist in 2024, and the last projected in that format until One Battle After Another in 2025.
