Episode 045: The Missouri Breaks (1976) with Steven Peros

Screenwriter Steven Peros joins the episode to discuss “The Missouri Breaks”, a film that is as great as the sum of its parts and its parts are…well…pretty great!

Directed by Arthur Penn. Written by Thomas McGuane. Produced by Elliot Kastner. With a score from John Williams. Starring Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Lloyd, Randy Quaid, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton & John P. Ryan

How is the world wrong about this movie?

From Andras: As Steven Peros says in the episode, some films are misjudged by their time, and against their time. “The Missouri Breaks” was so much OF its time the 1970’s totally missed it.