The Appaloosa is a film that was made at a time when Marlon Brando's career was in the doldrums. Either films were not money makers though critically good like Reflections in a Golden Eye or they were outright duds like this one.
It's not a horrible western, just not a terribly good one. Even Brando's One Eyed Jacks with a whole lot of posing was more interesting than this one.
Brando plays a Confederate veteran come home to his Texas border town and the Mexican family that took him in as an orphan. He's got himself a nice Appaloosa horse that he hopes to breed as the start of a horse ranch.
He also manages to come between bandit John Saxon and his woman Anajette Comer. Saxon gets his back up over it all so he steals the Appaloosa, leaving Brando to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico and track him down.
All this over a horse, seems hardly worth the effort, we're not exactly talking about Trigger here.
Brando and Saxon have a great old contest in trying to top each other in overacting. I leave it to your own judgment, but personally I think Saxon won the prize.
Not Brando at his finest by any means.
It's not a horrible western, just not a terribly good one. Even Brando's One Eyed Jacks with a whole lot of posing was more interesting than this one.
Brando plays a Confederate veteran come home to his Texas border town and the Mexican family that took him in as an orphan. He's got himself a nice Appaloosa horse that he hopes to breed as the start of a horse ranch.
He also manages to come between bandit John Saxon and his woman Anajette Comer. Saxon gets his back up over it all so he steals the Appaloosa, leaving Brando to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico and track him down.
All this over a horse, seems hardly worth the effort, we're not exactly talking about Trigger here.
Brando and Saxon have a great old contest in trying to top each other in overacting. I leave it to your own judgment, but personally I think Saxon won the prize.
Not Brando at his finest by any means.