One-Eyed Jacks
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Movie Reviews of One-Eyed Jacks
Movie Review: One Eyed Jacks
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this movie back in the early sixties and I still wonder why it was named "one eyed jacks"! There's no cards played in the whole movie! Other than that, it was still good and entertaining as it was back then. It was sort of the height of the western movie before Clint Eastwood and the like came on the scene, and when the drive-in's were the best family outing for movies.Movie Review: Brando Directs!
Summary: 4 Stars
A project that originally had Stanley Kubrick attached to direct. This Western is a little slow in starting, but once it gets going, it's one of the best in the genre. And Brando once again teams with his acting partner Karl Malden from Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront. This was before Brando started going off the deep end as he did in such films as Missouri Breaks.Movie Review: You Can'tTrust A Bandit.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie about a trio of Mexican banitos, was directed by Marlon Brando who also starred as Rio Boy. Where's the Cisco Kid when you need him? In 1962, Marlon was a balding, unattractive Indian giver (he took the ring back), certainly not a gentleman. He was captured in a sandstorm by a group of Amigos. After he escaped, he went to the Fiesta where he talked with his mouth full (no manners).
The respected sheriff of the town had been his partner and taken off with two sacks of gold. Now he is a corrupt politican married to a Mexican woman for respectabilty. Louisa, the sheriff's step-daughter, is wooed and seduced by Rio and gets pregnant (a repeat of her heritage). When he says how good that makes me feel, he doesn't look happy or glad. He tells lies when dealing with women and men. This time he buys a necklace for $30 and used it as he took advantage of Louisa. He admits later that everything he told her was lies to get his way with her. She became a disillusioned damaged goods which the old lecherous deputy tries to taunt and corrupt, but she has already been corrupted by Rio, the man she loves.
When caught, Rio is bull whipped in public by the sheriff in an exhibition as he crippled Rio's gun hand. At the thrashing incoming tide, he thinks of Louisa as his body heals, but his psyche doesn't. He is out for revenge. His "best friend" had left him to die (his sad tale) and he gives three reasons for why he wants to kill the man: five years of life lost, stolen money, and the beating. "Will killing him make you a man?" Louisa reminds him that there are not many chances in life to be happy. One has to forget and forgive. He'd been hurt too much and can't forget.
Love conquers all with Louisa on the white stallion as she goes home to wait for his return. He had a reason to do what he did, but it does not seem to matter now. He was a hunted man and demented with the need for revenge. Instead of hiding in Mexico, he rides off to Oregon. One-eyed jack is one who pretends to be what he isn't. He gets cornered and there is a shootout by the town fountain. Vengeance is mine as the lovers ride away after the jail break. A typical Western from the Sixties era.
Movie Review: One eyed Jacks
Summary: 2 Stars
I remeber the original and it was black and white,the color was
poor and the sound track,especially the dialog was very spotty.I
didn't realize this was colored over.