Customer Reviews

ONE-EYED JACKS

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This is an awful product. The quality of the movie/image is very bad, like an illegal copy of a DVD copied million times and almost destroyed. The image isn't sharp at all and the colors are very bad quality, very watery. The cover of the box doesn't contain any traditional information about the movie aside from a very short synopsis; it lack absolutely any information about the director, names of the actors, year of production, etc. This is an awful, bootleg-quality like product, and I would never buy it had i known it earlier.

Regards,

Sylvia Stachnik

One Eyed Jacks, along with A Streetcar Named Desire, represent the very best of the genius of Brando. He not only starred in One Eyed Jacks, but directed it. It is a classic Western in theme, but is surprisingly romantic. He is Rio, a bank robber and gunman, on a path of revenge. It has a beautiful score and was shot in Monterey, CA, and is both sweeping and gritty. Brando's performance is sexy, powerful, magnetic and compelling. There is lack of continuity in several insert shots, so unfortunately it has a rough cut feel in some places. It has not been digitally remastered and restored. This is an important film that deserves to be updated so that its beauty can be fully enjoyed.

I have purchased more than one DVD of this fine movie; however, each DVD has had terrible picture quality, as confirmed by a couple of other people. I wish other reviewers would also write something about the quality of the disk.

The movie had it all and then some. Very interesting. My one big complaint is the very poor video quality. Don't know why but I would not recomend this version of the movie.

This is very pensive filmmaking here. 1961's ONE-EYED JACKS is quite unique and very memorable under Brando's direction. He demonstrates several innovative camera movements that move the story quite fluidly along. I like this film. It is visually very atmospheric and moody. Cinematographer Charles Lang's images are extremely evocative of mankind's inner restlessness against good and evil set against a beautiful but sometimes foreboding environment. Composer Hugo Friedhofer's score is brilliantly moving and contemplative. It does not play out like a traditional Western or tale of revenge. The final confrontation is anti-climatic but what leads up to the film's conclusion is mesmerizing. The images and some of the obscure dialogue are very memorable and haunting. The outstanding cast includes Karl Malden, Ben Johnson, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook Jr. and Rodolfo Acosta. It is definitely a good film and worth repeated viewing. This DVD version is the not one of the best.

This moody Western is a film about betrayal and revenge directed by Marlon Brando. Brando's focus here is on characters. The way they walk, talk, eat, drink, dress, kill and die is poetic, enigmatic and disturbing under Brando's direction. This film is filled with overly beautiful photography and highly detailed sets.

The film's opening credits seen over Hugo Friedhofer's score seem very traditional. As the camera moves into the bank it soon becomes apparent that images can be quite deceiving. In a film full of deceit and betrayal Brando's allegorical style slowly becomes clear. A strange and uneasy film it is remains offbeat yet very captivating.

This is very pensive filmmaking here. ONE-EYED JACKS is quite unique and very memorable under Brando's direction. He demonstrates several innovative camera movements that move the story quite fluidly along. I like this film. It is visually very atmospheric and moody. Cinematographer Charles Lang's images are extremely evocative of mankind's inner restlessness against good and evil set against a beautiful but sometimes foreboding environment. Composer Hugo Friedhofer's score is brilliantly moving and contemplative. It does not play out like a traditional Western or tale of revenge. The final confrontation is anti-climatic but what leads up to the film's conclusion is mesmerizing. The images and some of the obscure dialogue are very memorable and haunting. The outstanding cast includes Karl Malden, Ben Johnson, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook Jr. and Rodolfo Acosta. It is definitely a good film and worth repeated viewing. This DVD version is the not one of the best.

Unfortunately, this DVD (2nd printing I have bought) is the perhaps the worst
example of a film transfer I have ever seen!

Why in G_d's name cant somebody in the film industry recognize this film's inherent
value and underwrite a professional remastering of this thing? There's a ready made
customer base fer cryin out loud, heck I'd even plunk down a deposit if it's production
depended on it! Until now only John Wayne's "The Quiet Man" stood as the worst major
DVD release by one of our genuine screen legends. But this thing....completely
unwatchable.

Buy at your own risk, you've been warned.

The print on this dvd couldn't be any worse than it is.

From the beginning the whole thing is so blurry and made worse by not showing it in the wide screen format as it was filmed but on a bad full screen version.

Even the print on the dvd case is hard to read I tried using a magnifying glass to no avail.

I wouldn't buy any other dvd from "Synergy" as I don't want to waste my money as I couldn't even continue watching the movie and threw it in the garbage can where it belongs.

G. Gonzalez

This is very contemplative filmmaking here. ONE-EYED JACKS is quite unique and very impressive under Brando's direction. He demonstrates several innovative camera movements that move the story quite fluidly along. I like this film. It is visually very atmospheric and moody. Cinematographer Charles Lang's images are extremely evocative of mankind's inner restlessness against good and evil set against a beautiful but sometimes foreboding environment. Composer Hugo Friedhofer's score is brilliantly moving and contemplative. It does not play out like a traditional Western or tale of revenge. The final confrontation is anti-climatic but what leads up to the film's conclusion is mesmerizing. The images and some of the obscure dialogue are very memorable and haunting. The outstanding cast includes Karl Malden, Ben Johnson, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook Jr. and Rodolfo Acosta. It is definitely a good film and worth repeated viewing. This DVD version is the not one of the best.