Brando and the VistaVision camera on a crane. This may be the first day of shooting, December 2, 1958.

Shooting on the coast near Monterey.

Ben Johnson in Death Valley for One-Eyed Jacks.

He doesn't appear in the Death Valley sequence, so what's he doing? More stuff that was cut is my guess.

From Brando's original ending to One-Eyed Jacks.

Rio (Marlon Brando) in the Monterey jail.

Lunch on location for One-Eyed Jacks.

Brando in Death Valley, shooting the chased-by-the-Rurales scenes. He wore a white smock to keep the dust off his costume — and deflect a bit of the sun.

This lobby card features a shot not found in the film, from Brando's capture by the Rurales.

The Japanese 45 of Johnny Burnette's "Ballad Of The One-Eyed Jacks." The sleeve art doesn't exactly knock me out.

An insert from Boxoffice magazine, March 1961. Promoting the opening engagements.

Brando directing the saloon shootout scene.

Miriam Colon: "They made so much fun of Brando. They made so much petty discussions. It was so much chitchat going on, laughing and commenting, 'How could he be directing?' You know? And then when he went over the budget that — at that time I think it was like $6 million — my God, he had gone over $6 million; it was the talk of the town. I said, 'Does that really matter?' What came out was a beautiful, beautiful Western." From an interview on NPR's Fresh Aire.

Top: Brando directs Sam Gilman in One-Eyed Jacks' bank-robbery scene. Gilman was a good friend of Brando's and appeared in a number of his films.

Bottom: Gilman as Doc Holliday in the Star Trek episode "The Spectre Of The Gun."

More script changes?

Rio (Brando) is captured by the Rurales in the first couple reels of One-Eyed Jacks.

German lobby card for Der Besessene, featuring the whipping scene.

One-Eyed Jacks plays the Wadena Drive-In in Wadena, Minnesota.

The Wadena opened in 1955 and closed in 1989.