Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

C-vitello The ending leaves me with lots of questions regarding the consequences of Rio's escape. We cut to Rio in the jail cell awaiting execution. Lon is sitting near the cell with a shotgun. Louisa comes to the jail to bring Rio some dinner but Lon objects to this but finally relents when Louisa threatens to tell her father. Suspicious, Lon looks thru the dinner and finds a Derringer hidden in a pot. Seeing this, Louisa runs wildly to Rio's cell screaming that she loves him, in reality, her goal was to give Rio 2 bullets for the Derringer. She ultimarely fails to give Rio the bullets as Lon drags her downstairs and out of the jail. During this time, Rio has managed to get hold of the Derringer that was sitting on a table during Lon's absence. As Lon returns, Rio pulls the empty Derringer explaining that he will shoot Lon if he doesnt open the cell. Rio escapes, Kills Dad Longworth, & rides off telling Louisa that he must leave the area but promisees to return after the baby is born. The flaw is this; Since, Louisa is left behind, wouldn't Lon expose her as an accomplice in Rio's escape and subsequent killing of Doc? How could she defend herself? Especially against the testimony of a bitter & jilted Lon?

guylyons I loved this film,seen it at least three times. I could kidnap western fans, starve them, then force them to watch this classic. Afterwards they would probably reward me for what they went through. The film has everything, a great script, top notch acting, and a very believable story.

Jackson Booth-Millard This was the only film the great Marlon Brando ever directed, featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, at the time it was seen as a bit of a disaster, both financially and because of its controversial material, but these days it is seen a classic of the genre. Basically a bank robbery is carried out by Rio, also called "The Kid" (Marlon Brando), Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) and third man Doc (Hank Worden), they are successful, but Doc is attacked and killed by Mexican Rurales, the other two manage to get away, followed by a posse in the desert. They travel across going across danger terrain with the swag bag, but Dad leaves his partner to the mercy of the Rurales, they take Rio and he is arrested, and for the next five years while in Sonora prison he thinks of nothing but exacting revenge on the man who betrayed him. When he is released he finds out where Longworth is, and since the robbery he has since become the sheriff of Monterey, California, when they meet Dad tries to convince him of his reasons for leaving him behind in Mexico, but he again tries to deceive him. With new partners Chico Modesto (Larry Duran) and Bob Amory (Ben Johnson) joining him, Rio plans to rob the bank of Monterey, but when he falls in love with Longworth's stepdaughter Louisa (Pina Pellicer) his plans are sidetracked, and Dad catches him and viciously whips him in front of the entire town. While recovering from hi wounds he struggles with conflicting emotions about his love for the girl and the man he wants to exact revenge, he chooses to go ahead and get his vengeance, but the robbery is carried out without him, Emory kills Chico during it, and the heist goes wrong with an innocent person murdered. Rio is falsely accused of the crime and put in jail by Longworth, who is desperate to kill the man he betrayed to get over his feelings about what he did in the past to him, so he will have him hanged in two days. Louisa visits the man she loves in prison to tell him that she is expecting his baby, and she attempts to smuggle him a miniature pistol, and he manages to bluff his way out, pointing the empty gun at Deputy Lon Dedrick (Slim Pickens), stealing his loaded gun and knocking him out to lock him up and escape. With no choice but to get out of town and run away Rio and Longworth get involved in a small shoot out, Dad is killed in the final showdown, and in the closing scene Louisa watches Rio ride away into the dunes, knowing he is a wanted man, and he says a fond farewell to the town, but to wait for him in the spring. Also starring Katy Jurado as Maria Longworth, Sam Gilman as Harvey Johnson and Timothy Carey as Howard Tetley. Brando, who apparently took over from Stanley Kubrick (who left to do Spartacus) does a pretty good job of directing, and as the lead character set on revenge but held back by love he is suitable, and Malden proves a surprisingly nasty presence compared his other much more laid back roles. The story is just about easy to understand, apart from the political and law related stuff, the concept is not completely original but has the right material to keep you watching, such as sadism and perversity, the picture quality is questionable, but it is a most interesting western. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Cinematography. Very good!

bebop63-1 Marlon Brando's first - and only - directorial debut, which was originally slated to be over 5 hours long! I'm glad it was cut down to just a little over 2 hours, and even then that was overly long for a Western movie in my opinion. Kudos to Brando for efforts to create a different backdrop of scenery like ocean waves crashing against the coastline with a beach house in the background instead of the usual dusty and grassy plains or desert that one usually associates in the Western genre. The score by Hugo Friedhofer is fitting, though not of the unforgettable category like, say John Williams' in Jaws or Indiana Jones or Ennio Morricone's soundtracks in The Good The Bad and The Ugly. On the other hand, the plot appears to be somewhat disjointed - it appears that in whittling down the original 5-hour to the present, some vital elements were inadvertedly removed, such as the main character Kid Rio escaping the Sonora prison chained to his Mexican cellmate, fleeing on foot through arid country with the nearest town hundreds of miles away - and the next scene shows they are resting in the shade of rocks liberated from each other. How did they manage to break the leg chain without any visible tools or aid from other people? Brando's method acting is plainly seen, his mumbling sweet-nothings in the ears of pretty women and his animal magnetism that is almost primitive permeates throughout the film, faintly reminiscent of the character Kowalski that he played in A Streetcar named Desire, one can't help feeling some disgust at the way he lies and wheedles his way into women's hearts yet be mesmerized. His amateurish attempts to direct, however, can be clearly seen as in too much time,was wasted on the coastal beach scenes where Rio and his gang relax and recuperate at the Chinaman's beach hut. Also, it is not explained why a sheriff would choose to live in an isolated, albeit beautiful home near the coast away from the main town that he is policing, wouldn't it make /more sense for him to live closer to town for easy availability should emergencies arise? Also how Rio manages to trick the odious yet dimwitted deputy Lon into releasing him from his cell with an empty gun makes for a questionable if comical highlight of the film.