Which 1961 Western is the only film directed by Marlon Brando?
"S. Ruddy, whom Paramount assigned to produce the film, agreed with the choice of Brando. However, Paramount studio heads were opposed to casting Brando due to his reputation for difficulty and his long string of box office flops. Brando also had ""One-Eyed Jacks"" working against him, a troubled production that lost money for Paramount when it was released in 1961. Paramount Pictures President Stanley Jaffe told an exasperated Coppola, ""As long as I'm president of this studio, Marlon Brando will not be in this picture, and I will no longer allow you to discuss it."" Jaffe eventually set three conditions"
"The Ugly American (film) The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel ""The Ugly American"" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The film was released on April 2, 1963, by Universal Pictures. American ambassador Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) travels to a Southeast Asian country beleaguered by rival factions but MacWhite views the political situation only in the simplest terms: as a struggle between communism and democracy. By the time"
"on CBS. These included Grace Kelly's Academy Award-winning performance in ""The Country Girl"" (1954), Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961), and the Jerry Lewis comedy, ""The Delicate Delinquent"" (1957). Columbia Pictures also made a strong showing during the ""Thursday Night Movie's"" second season with such entries as Sam Peckinpah's Civil War epic ""Major Dundee"" (1964) and the Jack Lemmon comedy, ""Good Neighbor Sam"" (1964). But Warner Brothers output, so prominent throughout the anthology's first season, consisted of only five features—and one of those was the animated ""Gay Purr-ee"" (1963), a film targeting the pre-teen audience and broadcast just"
"Only the Valiant Only the Valiant, also known as Fort Invincible, is a 1951 Western film produced by William Cagney (younger brother of James Cagney), directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, and Ward Bond. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North and Harry Brown, based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Charles Marquis Warren. Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command. Following the American Civil War,"
"first Western was the King Vidor-directed ""Duel in the Sun"" (1946). In addition to ""High Noon"", among his other Westerns were ""Giant"" (1956), ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1956), ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957), and ""Last Train from Gun Hill"" (1959). ""Rio Bravo"" (1959), ""The Alamo"" (1960), ""Circus World"" (1964) and ""The War Wagon"" (1967) were made with the involvement of John Wayne. Tiomkin received Oscar nominations for his scores in both ""Giant"" and ""The Alamo"". He told TV host Gig Young that his aim in creating the score for ""Giant"" was to capture the ""feelings of the great land and great"
"Marlon Brando, ""How the West Was Won"" (1962) in Cinerama, ""Charade"" (1963) with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, ""Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"" (1969), and ""Butterflies Are Free"" (1972). Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films. Lang won an Academy Award the second time he was nominated, early in his career; he received a total of 18 nominations, tying with Leon Shamroy for the most Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominations ever. According to IMDb, Lang also received Oscar nominations for"
"Din"" (1939) with Cary Grant. In the coming decades, Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills continued to be used as the setting for Western films, including ""West of the Pecos"" (1945) with Robert Mitchum, ""Thunder Mountain"" (1947) with Tim Holt, ""The Gunfighter"" (1950) with Gregory Peck, ""The Nevadan"" (1950) with Randolph Scott, ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955) with Spencer Tracy, ""Hell Bent for Leather"" (1960) with Audie Murphy, ""How the West Was Won"" (1962) with James Stewart, ""Nevada Smith"" (1966) with Steve McQueen, ""Joe Kidd"" (1972) with Clint Eastwood, ""Maverick"" (1994) with Mel Gibson, and ""The Lone Ranger"" (2013)"
"were created to solely produce films of the fantastique genres. The decade was equally adept at both character and realistic films. The highly noted actors James Stewart, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando were at the peak of their popularity. Stewart, starring in ""Winchester '73"", and Wayne, starring in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy and ""The Searchers"", revitalized the western. Brando mastered versatile roles in films such as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""The Wild One"" (1953), ""Julius Caesar"", ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1955), ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" (1956), and ""Sayonara"" (1957). Director Alfred Hitchcock was at the"
"The Appaloosa The Appaloosa (also known as Southwest to Sonora) is a 1966 American Western film Technicolor (set in the 1870s) from Universal Pictures starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, and shot in California, Utah, and Arizona. The 2008 ""Appaloosa"" film (starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen) is not related to this film, although it has a similar title. Based on the 1963 book by Robert MacLeod, the title character is a"
"films and music in both East and West Berlin influenced the rise of a subculture of youth commonly known as Halbstarke (lit. half-strengths). American films of the era like ""The Wild One"" and ""Rebel Without a Cause"", featuring movie stars Marlon Brando and James Dean, respectively, were viewed by the GDR with romanticizing public disobedience and rebellion, as well as encouraging violent crime. Continued occurrences of crime and uprisings by German youths would eventually lead to the decision by SED party officials to begin construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. In memory of the 1953 East German rebellion, West"
"Coward"" (1924), ""Galloping Gallagher"" (1924), ""Lighting Romance"" (1924), ""The Mask of Lopez"" (1924), ""The Silent Stranger"" (1924), ""The Wild Bull's Lair"" (1925), ""Lone Hand Saunders"" (1926) and ""The Two-Gun Man"" (1926). His 54 sound western film included ""The Phantom of the West"" (1931), ""Fighting Caravans"" (1931), ""The Squaw Man"" (1931), ""The Golden West"" (1932), ""Honor of the Range"" (1934), ""Western Frontier"", ""Heroes of the Range"" (1936), ""Billy the Kid"", ""The Lone Rider Ambushed"" (1941), ""Blazing Frontier"" (1943) and ""The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap"" (1947). His last two films were ""McLintock!"" (1963) and ""Come Blow Your Horn"" (1963). Hagney was"
"in the War, Daddy?"" (both released in 1966), ""The Happening"" (1967), ""Bullitt"" (1968), and the Western television series ""Cimarron Strip"". His other assistant directorial credits include ""The Great White Hope"" (1970), ""The Reivers"" (1969), ""Cinderella Liberty"" (1973), ""The Day of the Locust"" (1975), ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1975) and ""Smile"" (1975). He then became a line producer. His credits include ""Straight Time"" (1978), ""A Small Circle of Friends"" (1980), ""The Long Riders"" (1980), ""Impulse"" (1984), ""Fandango"" (1985), ""The Running Man"" (1987), ""Lies of the Twins"" (1991), ""Street Fighter"" and ""The Island of Dr. Moreau"" (1996), his last producing credit. In 1985,"
"Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1950s, and in Sydney from 1970. These clubs, like the clubs of motorcycle culture in general, reflected a disaffection with the mainstream culture of post-World War II America, a disaffection whose notoriety — and therefore appeal — expanded after the sensationalized news coverage of the Hollister ""riot"" of 1947. The 1953 film ""The Wild One"", starring Marlon Brando wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a leather jacket, and Muir cap, played on pop-cultural fascination with the Hollister ""riot"" and promoted an image of masculine independence that resonated with some men who were dissatisfied with mainstream culture. Also,"
"The Wild One The Wild One is a 1953 American film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando), whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. ""The Wild One"" is considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence. The film's screenplay was based on Frank Rooney's short story ""The Cyclists' Raid"", published in the January 1951 ""Harper's Magazine"" and anthologized in ""The Best American Short Stories 1952"". Rooney's story was inspired by sensationalistic media coverage"
"""Santiago"" (1956) with Ladd; ""Bombers B-52"" (1957) and ""The Big Land"" (1957), a Western with Ladd. His three low-budget westerns starring Clint Walker – ""Fort Dobbs"" (1958), ""Yellowstone Kelly"" (1959) and ""Gold of the Seven Saints"" (1961, from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett originally commissioned by Howard Hawks)--have been compared to Budd Boetticher's contemporary minimalist westerns with Randolph Scott. He did ""The Fiend Who Walked the West"" (1958) at 20th Century Fox and ""Up Periscope"" (1959) for Warners. He had a hit with ""Claudelle Inglish"" (1961) and ""The Sins of Rachel Cade"" (1961). Douglas directed Elvis Presley in the comedy"
"recoup its budget. The 1962 movie did not win any Oscars but was nominated for seven: The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film) Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, based on the novel ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV ""Bounty"" led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh. It is the second American film to be made from the"
"in 1953. Marlon Brando was sought for the title role. The role was eventually given to Victor Mature who had just signed a two-picture deal with Columbia. Filming was to have started in January 1955 but this was pushed back, in part so Mature could make ""Violent Saturday"". Production began 21 March 1955 on location in Mexico. The Last Frontier (1955 film) The Last Frontier is a 1955 American Western directed by Anthony Mann and starring Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, and Anne Bancroft. The film is set during the American Civil War at an isolated army base at"
"Black Rebel Motorcycle Club was inspired by the film. The exchange between Mildred and Johnny is repeated in ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Separate Vocations"". The Wild One The Wild One is a 1953 American film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando), whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. ""The Wild One"" is considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence. The film's screenplay was based on Frank Rooney's short story ""The Cyclists' Raid"", published"
"Commando (1962 film) Marcia o Crepa (March or Die) known as The Legion's Last Patrol in the UK and Commando in the US is a 1962 European (Italian, German, Spanish) co-production war film about the Algerian War of Independence. It was released in 1964 in the USA by American International Pictures on a double feature with ""Torpedo Bay""/""Beta Som"". French Foreign Legion Captain Le Blanc (Stewart Granger) leads a section of his Legion parachutists to capture an FLN guerilla leader. Along the way they are joined by a prostitute (Dorian Gray) and an Arab child. Their mission is a success"
"Morituri (1965 film) Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin, and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a German pacifist living in India during World War II. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his engineering experience to disable the scuttling charges of a German merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan. The Allies hope"
"documentary premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1966. Since then, it has aired on French television but was not shown in its entirety in the United States until Fandor made it available on November 15, 2013. Morituri (1965 film) Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin, and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is"
"the dangerous mission was for a personal reason (both officers were vying for the affection of the same woman). The woman believes it too, and bitterly breaks up with him. Lance's standing with the soldiers at the fort only gets worse when he assembles a group of misfit cavalrymen to hold off the rampaging Indians at the ruins of Fort Invincible, which is considered a suicide mission. According to Warner Bros accounts, the film earned $1,796,000 domestically and $1,630,000 foreign. Only the Valiant Only the Valiant, also known as Fort Invincible, is a 1951 Western film produced by William Cagney"
"Academy Award nomination for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in ""On the Waterfront"", and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in ""The Wild One"" proved to be a lasting image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in ""Viva Zapata!""; Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar""; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver"
"""Tonka"" (1959), ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1961) with Marlon Brando, ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964), ""Major Dundee"" (1965) with Charlton Heston, the remake of ""Stagecoach"" (1966; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine), ""Never a Dull Moment"" (1968), ""The Cowboys"" (1972) with John Wayne, ""The Getaway"" (1972) with Steve McQueen, ""Ginger in the Morning"" (1974) with Fred Ward, ""Blazing Saddles"" (1974), ""Poor Pretty Eddie"" (1975), ""Rancho Deluxe"" (1975), ""Tom Horn"" (1980), also with McQueen, ""Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"" (1979) with Michael Caine and Karl Malden, ""An Eye for an Eye"" (1966) and ""Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"" (1973)."
"Charro! Charro! is a 1969 American western film starring Elvis Presley shot on location at Apacheland Movie Ranch and Old Tucson Studios in Arizona. Uniquely, Presley did not sing on-screen, and the film featured no songs at all except for the main title theme, which was played over the opening credits. It was also the only movie in which Presley wore a beard. The film was novelized by Harry Whittington. Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, and Solomon Sturges co-starred. It was the final film for director Charles Marquis Warren who also produced and wrote it. It was also the"
"he heads for Mexico to settle scores and save the women. Brides Blindman Blindman (also known in Italian as ""Il pistolero cieco"", lit. ""The blind gunfighter"") is a 1971 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The main character is an homage to Kan Shimozawa's Zatoichi character: a blind transient who does odd jobs is in reality a high-skilled warrior. The film achieved over the years a cult status, mainly for the participation of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr in a role of weight. A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands."
"Diablo (2015 film) Diablo is a 2015 Canadian-American psychological western film co-written and directed by Lawrence Roeck and starring Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle and Danny Glover. It was the first Western starring Eastwood, the son of Western icon Clint Eastwood. A young Civil War veteran loses his home to a fire and is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife. The year is 1872 and Jackson, a former member of Union General Sherman's army, embarks on an odyssey of both rescue and revenge. At nearly every turn he encounters a mysterious figure named Ezra who"
"Alone"" (1958),""The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond"" (1960), ""A Time for Dying"" (1969), ""Arruza"" (1972), and ""My Kingdom For..."" (1985). Another relationship of importance was with Sam Peckinpah. They worked together on ""The Westerner"" (1960 television series), ""Ride the High Country"" (1962), ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969), ""The Ballad of Cable Hogue"" (1970), ""The Getaway"" (1972), and ""Junior Bonner"" (1972). Ballard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for ""The Caretakers"" (1963) and won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Cinematography for ""The Wild Bunch"". He worked on more than 130 films during his 50-year"
"(1949), ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""The Wings of Eagles"" (1957), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. The first movie in which he called someone ""Pilgrim,"" Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956), is often considered to contain Wayne's finest and most complex performance. Wayne was nominated as the producer of Best Picture for ""The Alamo"" (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was ""The Green Berets"" (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War in support of the war. During the filming of ""The Green Berets"", the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central"
"""Es geschah am 20. Juli"" (1955). He was also a photographer. His first attempt at directing came three years later with the documentary ""Warum sind sie gegen uns?"" (1958). He became internationally famous with his anti-war film of 1959 called ""Die Brücke"", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1961, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for his film ""The Miracle of Father Malachia"". His break in Hollywood came shortly thereafter when he was chosen to direct Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in the highly"
"Rio Bravo (film) Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. Written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story ""Rio Bravo"" by B. H. McCampbell, the film is about the sheriff of the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher to help his drunken deputy/friend. With the help of a cripple and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. ""Rio Bravo"" was filmed on location at"
"""Texas Terrors"" (1940), ""Wyoming Wildcat"" (1941), ""The Phantom Cowboy"" (1941), ""Two Gun Sheriff"" (1941), ""Desert Bandit"" (1941), and ""Kansas Cyclone"" (1941). ""Citadel of Crime"" (1941) was a rare non Western. It was followed by ""The Apache Kid"" (1941), ""Death Valley Outdoors"" (1941), ""A Missouri Outlaw"" (1941), ""Arizona Terrors"" (1942), ""Stagecoach Express"" (1942), ""Jesse James Jr"" (1942), ""The Cyclone Kid"" (1942), and ""The Sombrero Kid"" (1942). There were some non Westerns:""X Marks the Spot"" (1942), ""London Blackout Murders"" (1943), ""The Purple V"" (1943), ""The Mantrap"" (1943), ""False Faces"" (1943), ""The West Side Kid"" (1943), ""A Scream in the Dark"" (1943), and"
"his talent, or criticized him for failing to live up to the better roles. Previously only signing short term deals with film studios, in 1961 Brando uncharacteristically signed a five-picture deal with Universal Studios that would haunt him for the rest of the decade. ""The Ugly American"" (1963) was the first of these films. Based on the 1958 novel of the same title that Pennebaker had optioned, the film, which featured Brando's sister Jocelyn, was rated fairly positively but died at the box office. Brando was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance. All of Brando's other Universal films"