The Missouri Breaks

Name: The Missouri Breaks
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: May 22, 1976
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nicholson, John McLiam, John P. Ryan

1976

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United Artists | Release Date: May 22, 1976 | PG

Starring: Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nicholson, John McLiam, John P. Ryan, Kathleen Lloyd, Marlon Brando, Randy Quaid, Sam Gilman, Steve Franken

Summary: Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Director: Arthur Penn

Genre(s): Drama, Western

Rating: PG

Runtime: 126 min

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Tim Purtell

It’s quite good. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

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. Read full review

Empire Staff (Not Credited)

Slightly lacking in tension but with a striking performance from Marlon Brando. Read full review

Jack Kroll

Penn and McGuane have made an intelligent, entertaining Western, nicely balanced between the protagonists and the well-woven, colorful tapestry in which they're placed. [24 May 1976, p.103]

Chuck Bowen

A beautiful, gleefully weird vanity project that never quite coheres. Read full review

Vincent Canby

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. Read full review

Dave Kehr

It's a western, of sorts, and for the first half it's a lot of fun. But then things fall apart, and the film becomes fatally episodic. Read full review

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