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The Missouri Breaks Arthur Penn, USA, 1976, 35mm; 126m Plotting revenge on the wealthy land baron who murdered a member of his gang, cattle thief Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson, direct from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) buys a ranch near to his intended victim, only to enter into an affair with the baron’s rebellious daughter. Meanwhile, her father has put a price on Logan’s head, and the most flamboyant bounty hunter this side of the Mississippi (Marlon Brando, in a wild succession of hats and accents) aims to cash in. Trashed by critics and ignored by audiences upon its initial release, Penn’s lyrical comic western (scripted by novelist Thomas McGuane) more than stands the test of time: it now seems like one of the last triumphs of the New Hollywood iconoclasm at the dawn of the blockbuster era. “Using a conventional Western outline, Penn invests it with quirky history and a gang of originals. It is his most relaxed, digressive movie, with time for Tristram Shandy, urgent set pieces, an idiosyncratic girl, a running debate between order and freedom, and a Marlon Brando who manages to make every odd tangent believable and personal.”—David Thomson

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