Just as good as the first time

Rico watched The Missouri Breaks today, after seeing it first run some twenty years ago. Arthur Penn did a great job of directing, Jack Nicholson was brilliant as ever, but it was Marlon Brando, playing the magnificent wacko Robert E. Lee Clayton, that made the movie. A stone killer, it was appropriate when he killed Randy Quaid and John Ryan, both rustlers, but it was mean and hard when he killed Harry Dean Stanton, always one of Rico's favorites in any of his movies. Yet it was the love scene between Nicholson and the delicious Kathleen Lloyd (who still represents one of Rico's archetypically favorite styles of women), when he took her 'prisoner of the Chinese Tea Slavers', that Rico had remembered most.
The whole movie was just as pretty and poignant as he remembered. His own videos (see them at http://phlix.blogspot.com/) are but poor imitations...