The Missouri Breaks (1976)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

not as good as all the hype

Awesome Movie

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Just watched it again. Fantastic movie…. time has done wonders for Missouri Breaks! Several scenes appear to be 'natural' (Like when a horse shakes for no reason, mid dialogue – but the acting keeps rolling) The film is also quite dramatic and eery. Really off beat and also quite art- house. Love it. great music score, and funnily enough, very realistic. Plus sides …. Movie Poster (Bob Peak art) wonderful poster. Lovely sparse film score by John Williams. Brando's eccentricity keeps you captivated. Jane Braxton character….very loyal. So many good things about this movie, things that you never see in to-days modern movie making. Missouri Breaks sure packs a punch, even today. A hidden masterpiece worth revisiting indeed.

A rancher, David Braxton, has a problem with horse thieves, and one especially - Tom Logan. Braxton hires a "regulator", Lee Clayton, to hunt down the horse thieves.Interesting movie. Gritty yet often poignant plot. Solid direction. Does take a while to get going though and has a few random twists and turns.Cast is very interesting in that it contains Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson (this movie is surely the answer to a trivia question, somewhere...). Brando hardly seems to be trying, yet gives a riveting, eccentric performance. Nicholson is great in his role. Solid supporting cast which includes Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid and Kathleen Lloyd.

Rancher David Braxton has a horse rustling problem and he deals with it ruthlessly. His daughter Jane (Kathleen Lloyd) struggles with his father's cruelty. Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) leads a band of horse thieves and one of his men just got hung by Braxton. The gang decides to rob a train since they're getting hung anyways but it's a comedic adventure when Logan almost falls off a bridge. Logan decides to take revenge on Braxton by flirting with his innocent daughter Jane, buying a small neighboring property, and stealing his stock. Logan's men kill the Braxton foreman and Braxton hires regulator Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando) to hunt down the thieves. Clayton is an odd man who quickly zeroes in on Logan. Meanwhile Logan's men goes to Canada to steal horses from the RCMP.It's a comedic revisionist western taking apart some of the iconic western characters. The comedic part is light and unfunny. This is a worthwhile watch simply for Marlon Brando's crazy performance. It is much derided at the time and I can see why. His problematic actor style is legendary now. His wildly unique character overshadows everyone else including a popular Jack Nicholson right after 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. This movie must have built up unbearable hype and the disappointment is easy to imagine. The movie doesn't really hold together as a whole. The jokes aren't funny. Brando is all by himself. Nicholson tries his best but nobody can be expected to pull this off. At least he and Kathleen Lloyd have some fun flirty scenes together.

"Bonnie & Clyde" director Arthur Penn helmed some classic movies, and he directed two movies with Marlon Brando. The first movie they made together "The Chase" was a long-winded murderous tale with Brando as a sheriff after a fugitive. "The Chase" was coherent, but their second collaboration—which is less of collaboration—"The Missouri Breaks" is a complete mess done on a big budget. The saga about horse rustlers wears out its welcome and what might have been a grand western is reduced to mediocrity by an eccentric performance by Marlon Brando that goes haywire. He dresses in a variety of wardrobe as Lee Clayton, a 'regulator' who is hunting down Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) and his gang of horse rustlers. The only thing interesting about this mishmash is the idea that the outlaws win. Thomas McGuane's screenplay is like rustled horses stampeding all over the place with Brando improvising his scenes and dialogue. The supporting cast with Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Ryan is sturdy enough, and the scenery is rugged and thorny. Brando's regulator wields revolvers, rifles, and an object that looks like the plus sign in an arithmetic equation to kill both animals and men. John Williams of "Star Wars" fame wrote the orchestral score before he scored "Star Wars" and it is low-key. "The Missouri Breaks" is an odd, mean-spirited, shoot'em up with little to recommend it aside it being a western for western completists to say that they have watched. The drama is mitigated by the screenplay's incoherence. Jack Nicholson gives a good performance. As for Brando, he doesn't steal the show so much as sabotage it.