One-Eyed Jacks

One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is a Paramount western drama you can watch online on iFILM — the only film Marlon Brando ever directed, and the one he spent five years of his life trying to make his way.

After a bank robbery in Mexico, Rio is left to rot in prison while his partner Dad Longworth rides off with the gold. Years pass, Rio breaks out, and he heads to California with one purpose. Dad has reinvented himself as a respected sheriff with a wife and a stepdaughter. The revenge plot Rio planned in his cell is something else entirely by the time the two men face each other again. Karl Malden brings Dad a stubborn, complicated dignity — not quite villain, not quite not.

Brando took the director's chair after Stanley Kubrick left the project and shot for months on the Monterey coast, running the budget five times over its original estimate. The result is slow and physically beautiful, a psychological western that keeps asking what vengeance actually costs. Watch One-Eyed Jacks (1961) online on iFILM.