What a piece of trash! I wish Brando would take that sock out of his mouth then maybe I could understand him. The movie had the look like a 70's made-for-TV Universal. Waste of talent and time. Maltin gave it 2 and half stars. I want to know where the half came from.
shareSo do you hate all Brando movies with his way of talking or was the sock bigger this time? Personally, I love watching the guy for his expressions.
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THE CHASE was infamous at the time for behind-the-scenes conflicts between Arthur Penn (the director, who wanted to do the kind of frenetic, claustrophobic thing he would soon do for BONNIE AND CLYDE), Sam Spiegel (the producer, who wanted traditional pacing), the studio, and Lillian Hellman (the screenwriter who wanted to sew story threads about oil law and allusions to the still-recent Kennedy assassination into the narrative) and Brando who had his own ideas.
The result was a stellar cast in a mid-'60s Halloween colorscheme mishmash of smalltown sluttery with no center... Angie, Brando, Rule, Miriam Hopkins and Fonda were great. Redford was too green and pretty bad -- and Redford's escape from prison setting off the Texas hamlet just because the oil kingpin's son is sleeping with Redford's wife makes no sense at all.
I own a DVD copy and it's fascinating, but you can see somewhere in there the film it should have been but ultimately wasn't.
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LBJ's mistress on JFK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcXeutDmuRA