The Missouri Breaks
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| Directed by | Arthur Penn |
| Produced by | Elliott Kastner Robert M. Sherman |
| Written by | Thomas McGuane |
| Starring | Marlon Brando Jack Nicholson Randy Quaid Harry Dean Stanton |
| Music by | John Williams |
| Cinematography | Michael Butler |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | 1976 |
| Running time | 126 min |
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The Missouri Breaks is a 1976 western film starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando. This film is directed by Arthur Penn, with supporting performances by Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton, and Frederick Forrest. The soundtrack was composed by John Williams.
The movie chronicles a gang of horse thieves that set their sights on a Missouri ranch, with Nicholson posing as a farmer who soon comes under the suspicion of Brando, an eccentric bounty hunter hired by the ranch's ruthless owner.
In a May 24, 1976 Time Magazine interview ( "The Private World of Marlon Brando" ) it is revealed that Brando "changed the entire flavor of his character -- a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton -- inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. 'I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing.' "
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