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Laid-back rustler Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) and his gang buy a ranch next to their new target: rich landowner Braxton (John McLiam). While Logan courts his neighbor's daughter (Kathleen Lloyd), Braxt...( read more 
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MCT:August 23, 20081.- Brando and Nicholson are in it.
2.- There isn't much action in this western (actually eastern) but it has some good dialogue to keep you entertained.
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MCT:May 26, 2008
There are too many strong players in this film. Two legends M.Brando and Jack Nicholson are in, but there is also very interesting player in the same film. Let's have a look at him by three films. HARRY DEAN STANTON. The first one by Arthur Penn, 1976.
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MCT:March 24, 2008
Kathleen Lloyd almost steals the show from Brando and Nicholson. Brando hands in one of his oddest performances, yet the character is completely convincing--great actors can do that kind of thing. The interaction between Brando and his horse is worth the movie. Nicholson and Brando are fantastic together. Why don't they get stars this good together more often in top flight vehicles? This film is worth seeing. Penn is a good director. That said, it isn't a great movie, just a better than average shoot'em up. It was, I'm sure, violent for the time in which it was made, but it's somewhat tame now. All the main characters are morally questionable except for Jane, the daughter of the rancher. Some of Brando's behavior doesn't make sense, but I think that's the point. Lee Clayton (Brando) has let killing and the wide open spaces run him crazy, if he was ever sane. He only exists to ferret out rustlers, kill them and to amuse himself while doing so. I enjoyed this film and there is much to enjoy, but it could have been so much stronger. Penn directed Bonnie and Clyde. Where was that level of intensity?
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MCT:November 28, 2007
Nicholson & Brando were interesting as mortal rivals... Randy Quaid was interesting as a young actor in this movie... Nice sceneries & horses...
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MCT:November 28, 2007Has its moments, but otherwise a rather lackluster western. Only diehard Brando/Nicholson fans need apply.
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MCT:July 17, 2007
Worth watching just to see this one-time-only pairing of two iconic actors. A bit quirky but worth a viewing.
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MCT:May 30, 2007Jane Braxton: Are you an outlaw?
Tom Logan: I'm a jackpot farmer with one milk cow and a hundred-square-foot patch of vegetables.
Jane: Then how come you have so many guns?
Tom: Because I'm a sportsman.
Jane: Why do you have a sawed-off shotgun?
Tom: Because I'm a sawed-off sportsman.
And speaking of Marlon Brando, I was just thinking about what I'd said with regard to On the Waterfront not being Brando's greatest movie, and I was thinking about The Missouri Breaks, and I flip the channel to Turner and lookie here: The Missouri Breaks is showing. I call it fate.
The supremely gifted Brando plays the "eccentric" gunslinger frightfully well here. Reading cue cards because he didn't want to memorize lines anymore . . . Whatevahs. I don't know if he was on a chocolate and lasagne high when he was making this movie, or if he was just plain off his rocker, but he climbs to the heights of bizarre-dom in this plum role. And I definitely mean this in a good sense. The word "lurid" comes to mind, for some reason. Yeah, lurid, that's a great adjective, I think, and, well, he is so darn real as this psychotic killer, that he literally scares the chitterlins' outta me every time I watch this. The scene where he . . . executes Harry Dean Stanton is maximally spine chilling.
Flixsters, I caution you in all seriousness, please make note to beware if anyone ever tries the old "round this time of year, Indian summer, you can see the star of Bethlehem" routine on you. Be prepared.
Brando's own death scene, at the hands of Jack Nicholson, after expressing a fairly odd affection for his horse, that opening of the eyes to experience death, is un-freakin'-forgettable. Nicholson and Brando, eyeball to eyeball. Never ever to happen again in cinematic history. An amazing historical moment.
Geez! Just the accents coming and going, Marlon Brando, you are extremely creepy. Creeeeepy . . .
You know what woke yah up? You just had your throat cut.
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MCT:March 19, 2007
3 star rating. Poor acting performance by the man who had won 2 Oscars for On The Waterfront & The Godfather1. He won more money in his walk on performance in Superman The Movie
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MCT:January 6, 2007Unusual Western with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson!!! Gorgeous Crisp cinematograhy dialogue, Brando in particular is brilliant in this
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MCT:August 18, 2006
The story isn't much, but it has some very amusing scenes and memorable performances from the leads.
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MCT:March 16, 2006No pity is given to anyone when you realize that this film was forgotten soon after being made - but no worries ,it's stil an "Alright" western.
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