The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Directed by Arthur Penn
When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.
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And, while I'm asking questions, why is Sewell's character obsessed with remembering the title of the western that starred Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson ("The Missouri Breaks," although I don't remember it well enough to know what it has to do with "Old")?
Distractions abound, including an abrupt pregnancy and Sewell's character's fixation on a Marlon Brando-Jack Nicholson vehicle he just can't seem to put his finger on (it's "The Missouri Breaks"), which make "Old" play more silly than suspenseful.
And another character who is slowly succumbing to some mental illness repeatedly asks what the movie with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson is — it’s The Missouri Breaks , by the way.
…stare at him blankly, not caring a whit about his suffering, as some of us in the audience whisper furtively, “The Missouri Breaks.”
Under the circumstances, the cast do what they can with the sketchily delineated characters and limited scope for development; Sewell, in particular, suffers, particularly because Shyamalan saddles him with a misguided bit of business involving “The Missouri Breaks.”
The location may recall Marlon Brando’s 1976 western, The Missouri Breaks, but thematically it’s closer to the late colossus’s politics.
Depp, like Marlon Brando in "The Missouri Breaks" or Crispin Glover in anything, barely seems to acknowledge other actors or designers; he's in his own universe.