Missouri Breaks [VHS]

Missouri Breaks [VHS]
by Arthur Penn

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Actor: Frederic Forrest, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Marlon Brando, Randy Quaid
Director: Arthur Penn
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 126 minutes
Release Date: 1997-12-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: OFFBEAT WESTERN A MUST FOR BRANDO AND NICHOLSON FANS
Summary: 4 Stars

Blasted by critics when it first came out in 76 but still a Western I have always enjoyed watching. Three reasons: an audaciously offbeat and disturbingly singular performance by Marlon Brando; an excellent one by Jack Nicholson; fantastic supports from vet pros Harry Dean Stanton and Randy Quaid. Don't expect gunfights, saloon brawls or O.K. Corral stuff here. This is a different type of Western---long, slowly and languishly paced but stark, realistic and callously brutal. All about a gang of horsethieves and the horse baron out to stop them. After the bunch murder his ramrod, the old boy decides to hire a "regulator" to eradicate them---seems there's nothing he hates more than a stinkin horse thief. A "regulator" is basically a hitman, or better, an exterminator. Brando plays regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton, an eccentric who is an artist at killing---with firearms, knives, fire, even water---and a sadist. He is a marksman, a sniper, an arsonist. Clayton eliminates each member of the gang one by one by devious and clever means---engaging and studying his prey, utilizing disguise of speech and dress and planning their mode of expiration, often actuated at night or in the early morning hours when least expected. Clayton's corpulence, age, insouciance and whimsical demeanor certainly belie his acumen and virulence. This is what makes his character so much fun here. Nicholson plays Tom Logan, the leader of the rustlers. John McLiam is very good as land & horse baron David Braxton, a pompous but vindictive old dude who is just as perverse and evil as the guy he hires. Earthy Kathleen Lloyd is excellent as Braxton's isolated tomboyish daughter. After one of Logan's beloved boys is captured and hung under Braxton's orders he decides to get even by buying land from an unwitting Braxton and wooing his daughter. His plan is to infiltrate Braxton's stead while his boys rustle up everything he's got. Logan, however, starts to like the farming and like the female. Begins to enjoy life as an honest man a bit too much and becomes a trifle aloof from his boys who are beginning to get "regulated". Comes to his senses after close friends Cal and 'Little Tod' [Stanton and Quaid] are stalked and killed by Clayton. Logan now wants payback and goes after Clayton and Braxton. Knows he can't outdo a seasoned killer like Clayton so smartly uses latter's own statagem to get him. He cuts Clayton's throat while the latter lay asleep at dawn---a raw, harrowing scene. Ironically, it's old man Braxton who nearly caps Logan at the end. Film meanders a bit and could have used a little more editing and streamlining but overall a joy to watch hall-of-famers Brando and Nick. Directed by Arthur Penn with the same realism and authenticity and great output from his performers as in his classic BONNIE AND CLYDE, [1967]. A must for Brando & Nick fans.

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