One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.
The film was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. Other members of the cast include Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado and Ben Johnson.
Rod Serling, already famed as the creator of The Twilight Zone series, wrote an adaptation of the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider (1956) — which was i...
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One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando, who also played its lead character, Rio.
The film was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. Other members of the cast include Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado and Ben Johnson.
Rod Serling, already famed as the creator of The Twilight Zone series, wrote an adaptation of the novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider (1956) — which was itself simply a novelization of the career of Billy the Kid relocated to Monterey, California — at the request of producer Frank P. Rosenberg. The treatment was rejected.
Rosenberg next hired Sam Peckinpah, who finished his first script on 11 November 1957. Marlon Brando's Pennebaker Productions had paid $40,000 for the rights to Authentic Death and then signed a contract with Stanley Kubrick to direct for Paramount Pictures. Peckinpah handed in a revised screenplay on 6 May 1959. Later, Brando fired Peckinpah and hired Calder Willingham, but...
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