The Missouri Breaks (1976) on Netflix
Tom Logan and his gang buy a farm beside David Braxton's ranch as a front for rustling Braxton's stock. Braxton hires Robert E. Lee Clayton, a regulator, to end the thefts.
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Plot summary
Tom Logan is a rustler in hard times. David Braxton, a land baron who acts as his own law, has hanged a friend of Logan's gang, and the gang decides to get even: they kill Braxton's foreman, Pete Marker, and hang him from the same tree. With money taken in a train robbery they buy a small farm beside Braxton's ranch and begin rustling his stock. Part of the gang, without Logan, crosses the Missouri River into Canada to steal horses from the North-West Mounted Police and is chased back over the border. Logan stays behind, plants crops, and takes up with Jane Braxton, the land baron's daughter. Furious about the thefts and about Jane, Braxton sends for Robert E. Lee Clayton, a regulator who takes care of rustlers for a price.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Missouri Breaks (1976)
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- Marlon Brando invented his character's weapon himself, telling Time in May 1976 that he had dreamed up a killing tool somewhere between a harpoon and a mace because he had once been expert at knife throwing.
- Brando amused himself on location with rubber spiders and eggs, mooned the crew, bit a chunk out of a frog during a river scene and took potshots at grasshoppers instead of firing at Jack Nicholson as scripted; director Arthur Penn made no apparent effort to stop him.
- Brando took $1 million for five weeks of work plus 11.3 per cent of the gross above $10 million, while Nicholson took $1.25 million for ten weeks plus 10 per cent above $12.5 million, and later sued producer Elliott Kastner over unpaid wages.
- A horse called Jug died during a river crossing shot on the Yellowstone in August. The production said the animal had a heart attack; humane societies alleged it was bound, strapped and dragged through the water, the set was closed to inspectors, and the film ended up on the American Humane Association's unacceptable list.
