The Wild One. His last stage appearance was the Boston production of Arms and the Man in 1953. Brando’s career became as outsized as his acting. In 1960, he formed his own production company to make a new film. Both Stanley Kubrick and then Sam Peckinpah left the director’s position because they found working with Brando too difficult, so Brando himself took over the directing for 1961's One-Eyed Jacks. Brando’s work in the sixties included a string of movies that did not connect with an audience: The Ugly American (1963), The Chase (1966), A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Candy (1968), Queimada! (1969), The Nightcomers (1971).
