Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia Details

Garcia...a study in depravity

This Peckinpah movie is based on a simple premise. Alfredo Garcia gets a young woman pregnant, her father orders his head on a plate.

What follows is a study of life at the lowest end of the scale. Warren Oates was never better in playing the role of Bennie, a lowfife, who happens to know where Garcia is.

The film has its faults, and Peckinpah does display some bad days on set, but overall this is a remarkably fine piece of filmmaking by any standard.

The movie is deliberately uncomfortable to watch at times, and Oates does take you on an amazing journey, not only through Peckinpah's head, but through a mexico that has never been captured better.

Not a bag of laughs, but an extraordinary work by an extraordinary director and an astonishing acting display by an actor fully believing in this project.

[Highly rated reviewer]

If you want to get a head!!!!!

As a review, I do not believe that I could surpass Mike Goulding of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with whom I agree most whole heartedly.

This is a classic film, made by a genius of a Director who inspired brevity, realism and great work from his actors.

You really want to swat the flies in Bennie's (Warren Oates) car and you can feel the real love he has for his fickle lover Elita (Isela Vega). The two hard men played by Gig Young and Robert Webber may also be lovers, but you're never quite sure that maybe they are just good friends.

Who is going to get killed next and why? At least sixteen people die during the course of this film, a mere bagatelle compared to 'The Wild Bunch'.

Certainly if you are an aficionado, then you can play 'Spot who was in 'The Wild Bunch' and who were they?'.

This film has everything, betrayal, greed, revenge, lust and true, true love for family and friend.

This film is a 'must see' for any Sam Peckinpah fan as there are so many levels that one can enjoy within its twisting plot.

Loved seeing it again, definitely worth the money!