The only film ever directed by Marlon Brando, who also stars as Rio, a
bank robber betrayed by his partner Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) after
a Mexican heist. Years later Rio escapes prison and tracks Dad to a
California coastal town where the betrayer has reinvented himself as a
respectable sheriff with a wife and stepdaughter (Pina Pellicer).
Stanley Kubrick was originally set to direct before Brando took over
himself, and the production became legendary for its cost overruns —
but the result is a brooding, unusually psychological western shot in
VistaVision along the Monterey coast. The film entered the public
domain when its copyright was not renewed.
Western · Drama
