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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
1974
A Mexican gang boss puts a $1,000,000 reward on the head of the young man responsible for his daughter's pregnancy, leading to a cross country pursuit. Read more
| Starring | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Kris Kristofferson |
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| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| Genres | Drama |
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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
A Mexican gang boss puts a $1,000,000 reward on the head of the young man responsible for his daughter's pregnancy, leading to a cross country pursuit.
| Starring | Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young |
|---|---|
| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: French, Greek, Italian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 20 Jun 2005 Production year: 1974 |
| Format | DVD |
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Sam Peckinpah's enormous talent was on the wane when he made this gruesome Mexican crime drama. But if you can bear to look beneath its gory exterior as piano player Warren Oates becomes caught up with bounty hunters pursuing that head for a wealthy landowner, there are still enough moments when Peckinpah's greatness shines through. Excitingly told, this is like The Wild Bunch, but even wilder.
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After the deathwish of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, it's logical that the spirit of a dead man should dominate its... read more on Time Out
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12 out of 12 people found this review helpful
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. -
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12 out of 12 people found this review helpful
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. -
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