THE MISSOURI BREAKS
Directed by ARTHUR PENN
Screenplay by THOMAS McGUANE
In the course of portraying a psychopathic "regulator"a hired gun charged by a Montana cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlersMarlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance...