Filmmaker / film historian Mike Siegel talks about the chaotic production of Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, his classic western ONE-EYED JACKS. The project had started in 1957, when Brando had bought the first feature-film script ever written by Sam Peckinpah, based on Charles Neiders novel 'The authentic death of Hendry Jones'. In 1958 Brando hired Stanley Kubrick as the films director but just a few weeks before the cameras started rolling, Brando announced that he would direct the film himself. It would take almost 2 1/2 years until the film was finally released.
—Mike Siegel