Remembering ‘One-Eyed Jacks’ and ‘Macario’ Actress Pina Pellicer 60 Years After Her Death
19.02.2024 - 22:01
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Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content Just as she emerged as one of the brightest lights of Latin American cinema, actor Pina Pellicer died by her own hand 60 years ago. Only 30, she had in a short time co-starred opposite Marlon Brando in his only directing effort, the epic Western “One-Eyed Jacks,” and also appeared in one of the most important films in Mexican cinema’s illustrious history: “Macario,” based upon the classic B.
Traven story and honored as the first Mexican film ever nominated for the international picture (then foreign language film) Oscar. The journey from script to screen took several torturous years for “Jacks,” which commenced production on location in Carmel in 1958 but did not open in theaters until 1961.
In the meantime, Pellicer took on the leading role of Macario’s wife in Roberto Gavaldón’s film, which competed in Cannes for the Palme d’Or in 1960 against such international masterpieces as Ingmar Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring,” Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” and Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” with the later scoring the top prize. The travails of the “Jacks” production, which included Stanley Kubrick, the original director, firing Sam Peckinpah, the original writer, and then leaving the project only weeks before principal photography began, put newcomer Pellicer in an incredibly high-profile Hollywood studio production that was receiving mass scrutiny and bad publicity from the beginning.
And helmed by a powerful actor who was a completely untested film director. Did a romance with Brando wound Pellicer? Did his bizarre behavior on set affect her ability to play her role? Was his moody, distracted, indecisive demeanor as director and possible complicated romantic machinations
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