One-Eyed Jacks

Three men plot a bank robbery, but their friendship is tested when one is killed, leading to a chain of events that includes imprisonment, revenge, love, tragedy, and ultimately a final showdown. One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American English-language Western Drama film featuring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Pina Pellicer, Slim Pickens and Mabel Smaney. The movie is inspired from The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones 1956 novel by Charles Neider. Pennebaker Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Frank P. Rosenberg. The movie is directed by Marlon Brando. Paramount Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. One-Eyed Jacks was released on 30th March 1961 and takes a screen time of 141 minutes. One-Eyed Jacks was made on a budget of $6 million and at the box office it grossed only $4 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham, Rod Serling and Sam Peckinpah. Cinematography was done by Charles Lang and editing by Archie Marshek and Jack H. Lippiatt. The music was composed by Hugo Friedhofer.