The Missouri Breaks

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The Missouri Breaks

film by Penn [1976]

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Arthur Penn
Films and plays of the 1970s
…returned to film work with The Missouri Breaks (1976), a controversial, eccentric, big-budget western with a screenplay by novelist Thomas McGuane and starring Brando as a hired killer toying with a gang of rustlers whose former leader was played by Jack Nicholson. In 1977 Penn directed Bancroft’s portrayal of Israeli…
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…returned to film work with The Missouri Breaks (1976), a controversial, eccentric, big-budget western with a screenplay by novelist Thomas McGuane and starring Brando as a hired killer toying with a gang of rustlers whose former leader was played by Jack Nicholson. In 1977 Penn directed Bancroft’s portrayal of Israeli…
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Jack Nicholson
The Shining, Terms of Endearment, and As Good as It Gets
… in the Arthur Penn western The Missouri Breaks (1976), an uneven yet compellingly quirky film; and he directed and starred in another revisionist western, Goin’ South (1978). His next notable role was in director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980); an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it is a film…
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… in the Arthur Penn western The Missouri Breaks (1976), an uneven yet compellingly quirky film; and he directed and starred in another revisionist western, Goin’ South (1978). His next notable role was in director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980); an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it is a film…
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