One-Eyed Jacks

“No I'm taking that first and only film like you know there's people have favorite first films or last films or whatever that's Marlon Brando directed one movie and it's staggeringly brilliant I mean you just can't even believe it I think it's a little cheap cuz he fired Kubrick right before it started so it was prepped by none other than Stanley...”

“Another one of my favorites, One-Eyed Jacks. It’s directed by Marlon Brando, who is the star along with his old mate, Karl Malden. Fabulous actor. This is from sometime in the early ’60s. ’61 or ’62, I think it came out. It was directed by Brando and, apparently, it went massively over budget. But it’s such a great story. And the acting, of course, is… is brilliant, with the two of them. It’s also got Slim Pickens in it, who’s one of my favorites, in his familiar role as a sort of redneck bully.”

“One-Eyed Jacks, Brando's only directing film. It has great stuff in this film. There's a line in it, I remember when Brando kills somebody in a bar and Karl Malden comes in and says, 'So what happened, kid?' and Brando says something like, 'He didn't give me no selection, Dad.' I thought that was such a great line. 'He didn't give me any selection,' so they killed him.”

“One-Eyed Jacks, I mean, Marlon Brando so, and Karl Malden in this film, it's one of the strongest performances. For me, this film introduced a sort of modernity to, well, Marlon Brando himself, a modernity to Performance. You didn't quite know if he was in it or not, if he was really in the character or not, but that was because the character he always played was not really in the world sort of thing, in my opinion.”