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One-Eyed Jacks

1961 ★ 141 min
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado
Director: Marlon Brando
Writer: Calder Willingham, Guy Trosper, Rod Serling
Producer: George Glass, Walter Seltzer

One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American epic Western film directed by Marlon Brando in his sole directorial credit, and starring Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson and Pina Pellicer. Brando portrays a bandit seeking revenge on his former mentor who betrayed him (Malden).

Trivia

  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
  • Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone television series, wrote an adaptation of the 1956 novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider, at the request of producer Frank P. Rosenberg.
  • The book was a fictional treatment of the familiar Billy the Kid story, relocated from New Mexico to the Monterey Peninsula in California.
  • Rosenberg next hired Sam Peckinpah, who finished his first script on 11 November 1957.

Filming Locations

  • Scheduled for a three-month shoot, principal photography on One Eyed Jacks took six months at a cost $6 million, while Brando shot 1 million feet (304,800 meters) of film.
  • You're the first one up in the morning... I mean, we shot that thing on the run, you know, you make up the dialogue the scene before, improvising, and your brain is going crazy". The film was Paramount Pictures' last feature released in VistaVision.

Previous Showings

3 Runs • 2 Festivals

1,773 tickets sold

Original Billings: 1 run (June 14, 1961)

Original Run: June 14, 1961 (Wednesday - Monday)

All runs on record (3):

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