Long-time bank robbers Rio (Marlon Brando) and Dad (Karl Malden) botch a job in Sonora, Mexico and find themselves ambushed by Rurales; the latter flees with the loot while the former ends up in prison. Years later, Rio escapes prison and tracks down Dad, who’s now a sheriff in Monterey. The setup for Marlon Brando’s lone directorial effort is familiar territory for the western genre, but as filmed by Brando in Technicolor VistaVision, this standard revenge plot takes on a quality of Shakespearean tragedy. Assigned first to Stanley Kubrick from a Sam Peckinpah script, One-Eyed Jacks wears its heart on its sleeve so passionately that it’s hard to imagine it under such a different authorial gaze. Brando’s version, a swooning Freudian opera set against the white sand and cypress trees of central coast California, is an enticing hybrid of old-school Hollywood pomp and the personal expressiveness that would define the seventies.