# Favorite Movies w/ Marlon Brando? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652 "2019-09-03T23:51:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/21 "2019-09-04T20:02:35Z")
Guys & Dolls. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/22 "2019-09-04T20:22:36Z")
It’s surprising how very few Brando movies are on my Favorites list. (Bogart, Buscemi, De Niro, Keitel, Pitt, Washington and especially Nicholson each appear multiple times.) _Godfather_ is my #2, _Apocalypse Now_ my #39 (without Brando it would be #20). The only other Brando flicks that make my Top 100 are _On The Waterfront_ and _The Score_. And Brando had only a bit part in the otherwise-excellent heist film _The Score_. Some Brando films, e.g. _Teahouse of the August Moon_, were horrible. I watched _Last Tango in Paris_ only once, decades ago. It didn’t appeal then; maybe I should watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/23 "2019-09-04T20:34:09Z")
**Guys and Dolls** _Daddy, I got cider in my ear!_ ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/24 "2019-09-04T20:48:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [The Freshman](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099615/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1), with Matthew Broderick and Bruno Kirby. A rare comedic performance for Brando. My wife and I still LOL when 2 boys appear! “Carmine said one boy, here are two!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WLN357NLmBU/maxresdefault.jpg ""Carmine said one boy...here are two!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLN357NLmBU) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/25 "2019-09-04T21:28:45Z")
Show of hands if anyone else has even seen this movie: [Désirée](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046903/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) (1954). Brando does a great job as the young Napoleon. “In Marseilles, France in 1794, Désirée Clary [Jean Simmons], a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte [Michael Rennie], an aide to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor’s downfall.” Brando is great as that cocky upstart Napoleon. [Check him out!](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTUyMTgxMzA1NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzI3OTE2._V1_.jpg) [And here.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMGYwMzBhNzUtNzYzZi00MzVmLWE2M2EtY2Y3OTE1NjI5MTgzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDI2NDg0NQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,795,1000_AL_.jpg) This was early in Brando’s career. He was only 30. House of Bernadotte [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bernadotte): > [@](#): > > …Charles XIII [of Sweden] was 61 years old and prematurely senile. He was also childless; one child had been stillborn and another died after less than a week. It was apparent almost as soon as Charles XIII ascended the throne that the Swedish branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp would die with him. In 1810 the Riksdag of the Estates, the Swedish parliament, elected a Danish prince, Prince Christian August of Augustenborg, as heir-presumptive to the throne. He took the name Charles August, but died later that same year. > > At this time, Emperor Napoleon I of France controlled much of continental Europe, and some of his client kingdoms were headed by his brothers. The Riksdag decided to choose a king of whom Napoleon would approve. On 21 August 1810, the Riksdag elected Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, a Marshal of France, as heir presumptive to the Swedish throne. > … ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/26 "2019-09-04T21:34:19Z")
Yeah, another vote for **Guys and Dolls** , mostly because it’s so different from his usual oeuvre (though I always like watching him). And another thing you don’t expect - he can actually dance a bit (!) j ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/27 "2019-09-05T01:04:59Z")
My favorite Brando films are _Guys and Dolls_ and _On the Waterfront…_ but neither is my favorite because of Brando. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/28 "2019-09-05T01:31:07Z")
It’s hard to separate his performances from great movies. I love The Godfather and his work on it was ok but just serviceable. His best acting was in One-Eyed Jacks in my humble opinion. Great movie too. Trivia: he directed it! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/29 "2019-09-05T02:28:28Z")
Gonna have to go with Superman. ---
**Author:** ![ralfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ralfy/32/600_2.png) [@ralfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralfy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/30 "2019-09-06T13:13:48Z")
I like _Burn!_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/31 "2019-09-06T14:58:07Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [The Freshman](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099615/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1), with Matthew Broderick and Bruno Kirby. A rare comedic performance for Brando. +1 I love this movie. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652/32 "2019-09-06T15:14:44Z")
Also, Brando insisted on wearing the famous Superman symbol on his clothing. This established it in canon that the S within the shield is the symbol of the House of El. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-w-marlon-brando/839652.md?page=1)