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A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a gang of Montana rustlers, led by the laid-back Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), buys a small farm adjacent to the ranch of their latest target/nemesis, Braxton (John McLiam). When the gang leaves Tom on the farm and heads to Canada for another score, Tom takes a shine both to farming and Braxton's rebellious, strong-willed daughter, Jane (Kathleen Lloyd). The slightly loco Braxton, however, hires the psychopathic regulator Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) to root out the rustlers. With a series of unorthodox methods (and costumes), Clayton hunts down Logan and his gang one by one, even after Braxton fires him, but Logan isn't about to let Clayton (or Braxton) make him obsolete.System Requirements: Running Time 126 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE
"Brando...turns out to be the most unpredictable and outright strangest creature to ever visit a western." The Motion Picture Guide
Editor's Note
THE MISSOURI BREAKS is a big-event picture starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando as men on opposite sides of the law. Brando plays Lee Clayton, hired gunman and bounty hunter, sent to track down a gang of cattle thieves led by Tom Logan (Nicholson). The cattle thieves are stealing stock from rancher David Braxton. On top of that, Logan is having a love affair with Braxton's daughter. Braxton wants Clayton to bring the gang to justice, but Logan is not about to run from trouble.
Plot Summary
It's the wild frontier and anything goes, especially in the untamed territory of Montana. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a gang of cattle thieves out for revenge when one of its members is hanged by wealthy rancher David Braxton. Braxton, however, has hired expert manhunter Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) to stop the gang at any cost. Clayton is a crazed man, driven half mad by the loneliness of his profession, a man who will never stop until he has gotten his quarry. Tom Logan is not intimidated and confronts Clayton himself. THE MISSOURI BREAKS is another vivid anti-western from Penn. Like LITTLE BIG MAN, this film takes a hard look at what life was like in the wild West, keeping the characters real and the story intense. Marlon Brando gives an unnerving performance as the insane bounty hunter, and Nicholson is sympathetic as the young but wearied cattle rustler who is in love with his enemy's daughter. The production overcame many difficulties with weather and locations to create an entertaining Hollywood epic.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 5/12/2009 |
| Running Time: 126 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1976 | | Catalog ID: 102267 | | UPC: 00027616125293 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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"[T]he film is made memorable by a wildly eccentric turn from the late Marlon Brando..." 09/01/2004 p.97Uncut
"[A] smouldering anti-western....The action is rationed into short, ferocious bursts and used as a counterpoint to the director's paced dissection of power and politics on the anarchic frontier." 09/01/2004 p.138 Entertainment Weekly
"Nicholson is quietly sly, and the lush, sharply edited film makes perfect use of his costar's free-range talent." -- Grade: B 11/11/2005 p.56 The Motion Picture Guide 9 of 10
In the 1970s, Westerns started to come a little weird and this one was downright eccentric, although Brando, as a nutty gunfighter, and Nicholson, as a leader of rustlers, are fascinating to watch... Brando turns out to be the most unpredictable and outright strangest creature to ever visit a western movie... The whole thing, script, acting and especially Penn's heavy-handed direction, is bizarre and about as real a slice of the Old West as a grenade launcher. Yet there's a perverse joy in watching Brando and Nicholson try to compete with each other in mugging, switching accents (Brando), and mannerisms... The erratic and exotic behavior of the stars is infectious, with Quaid, Forrest, Stanton and others mimicking them with slavish devotion.
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