The Broken Land (1962)
After a busy year in 1960, Jack Nicholson lands a role as a fugitive cowboy in 1962's The Broken Land.
He's played a killer, an overly aggressive teenager, a kidnapper/murderer, a pool hall bum turned rapist, and a masochistic dental patient. And now, in this week's episode, Sarah is reviewing Jack Nicholson's next big project. In 1962, Jack landed a role as a cowboy who breaks out of jail in The Broken Land, his first western.