Chicago Herald-American

Actor Karl Malden was a native Chicagoan who, like Michael Jackson, grew up in Gary, Ind. Among his remarkable accomplishments was his 71-year marriage to his wife, Mona -- if that's not a Hollywood record, it's up there.

When he died at 97, last week, he was noted for his work with Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On The Waterfront." But he also was famously paired with Brando in the vastly underrated 1961 film "One-Eyed Jacks."

"One-Eyed Jacks" was the only film Brando directed and no wonder: it took two years to make. Brando fired the original director, Stanley Kubrick and eventually hired himself as director. As meticulous a film maker as he was an actor, he supposedly shot more than 440 minutes of film, with 141 making it to the big screen (the remaining 300 reportedly were destroyed -- too bad.).

The film stars Brando and Malden, but also included standout peformances from Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado, newcomer Pina Pellicer and bad guy Ben Johnson (who played Melvin Purvis in the 1973 film "Dillinger," which also starred Warren Oates as John Dillinger and Richard Dreyfuss as Baby Face Nelson -- in a movie released a month before "American Graffiti.")

They don't make movies like this anymore.

Here's the thrilling conclusion to one of Karl Malden's greatest movies: