From all accounts, Marlon Brando was hired as Sky Masterson for Guys and Dolls because he was the most bankable star in the world at the time of its production. This may be true and explain the strange casting against type, but it fails to explore Brando’s own relationship to and interest in the part.

Critics and studio officials alike have suggested that the reason the film Morituri failed to be a smash in 1965 was due to the fact that nobody understood the title, although I would beg to differ. If this had been the case after all, we’d have seen low, low audiences at Avatar, Quo Vadis, etc.

Later in his strange life, Marlon Brando hooked up with Johnny Depp and there are some amusing stories out there about the pair of them, which are all pretty much gossip, and which generally involve the older statesman giving the young buck good advice.