Synopsis
When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.
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Cast
- Marlon BrandoRobert E. Lee Clayton
- Jack NicholsonTom Logan
- Randy QuaidTittle Tod
- Kathleen LloydJane Braxton
- Frederic ForrestCary
- Harry Dean StantonCalvin
- John McLiamDavid Braxton
- John P. RyanSi
- Steve Frankenl'enfant solitaire
- Richard BradfordPete Marker
Recommandations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
It’s quite good. - 80
Empire
Slightly lacking in tension but with a striking performance from Marlon Brando. - 80
The Guardian
On first release, Arthur Penn's 1976 western found itself derided as an addled, self-indulgent folly. Today, its quieter passages resonate more satisfyingly, while its lunatic take on a decadent, dying frontier seems oddly appropriate. - 80
Time Out
It's one of the few truly major Westerns of the '70s, with a very clear vision of the historical role played by fear and violence in the taming of the wilderness. - 75
The A.V. Club
Missouri Breaks begins as a ramshackle comedy and ends as a dour tragedy about the death of the old west with Brando serving as its singularly warped Angel of Death. - 63
Slant Magazine
A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres. - 60
The New York Times
The film conveys a fine sense of place and period, of weather and mood and the precariousness of life, which are things that Mr. Nicholson responds to as an actor. Yet the plot, along with Mr. Brando, keeps intruding and throwing things out of balance. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The whole thing, script, acting, and especially Penn's heavy-handed direction, is bizarre. Yet there's a perverse joy in watching Brando and Nicholson try to compete with each other in mugging, switching accents, and mannerisms that could only be found elsewhere in institutions like the Bellevue Insane Asylum.
