The Missouri Breaks: An Original Screenplay

by Thomas McGuane

Book Overview

Great copy for "1976" copy. First edition June, 1976. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345252187
• ISBN13: 9780345252180
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best "anti-westerns" of the '60s and '70s.

'The Missouri Breaks' caps a short list of "anti-western" films that marked the death of the classic western as an American Icon. Writer Thomas McGuane skillfully weaves the counter-cultural mores of his own generation into the fabric of this non-conformist screenplay in which the "good guys" are the cattle rustlers and the "bad guys" are the law (or what passes for law in the west). Jack Nicholson (as a rustler) and a very scary Marlon Brando as a looney bounty hunter head up this cast, which reads like a rogue's gallery of great character actors such as Frederick Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton and Warren Oates. Many mainstream American critics panned this film, largely because of its refusal to fit within well-defined story arcs, yet foreign critics praised it for its rawness and superb acting. If you're a fan of films that stretch the limits of their genre, then 'The Missouri Breaks' is a must-see Western.