Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Warren Oates, Gig Young, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Emilio Fernández
Synopsis:
An American drifter accepts an eccentric ransom request from a Mexican patriarch, and sets off with his prostitute girlfriend on a quest through the criminal underworld for the head of the man who deflowered El Jefe's daughter.
Review:
What once seemed like the nadir of Peckinpah's career can now be viewed as its epitome: the violence, the misogyny, the view of Mexico, its women and liquor, the crime syndicate as evil as Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, the self-immolating finale. And Oates himself, who appears here almost as the proxy of his director. It was also probably the least interfered with of the films, and in a weird kind of way, there is something sublime about it.
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Warren Oates, Gig Young, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Emilio Fernández
Synopsis:
An American drifter accepts an eccentric ransom request from a Mexican patriarch, and sets off with his prostitute girlfriend on a quest through the criminal underworld for the head of the man who deflowered El Jefe's daughter.
Review:
What once seemed like the nadir of Peckinpah's career can now be viewed as its epitome: the violence, the misogyny, the view of Mexico, its women and liquor, the crime syndicate as evil as Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, the self-immolating finale. And Oates himself, who appears here almost as the proxy of his director. It was also probably the least interfered with of the films, and in a weird kind of way, there is something sublime about it.
Country: US
Technical: col 112m
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Warren Oates, Gig Young, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Emilio Fernández
Synopsis:
An American drifter accepts an eccentric ransom request from a Mexican patriarch, and sets off with his prostitute girlfriend on a quest through the criminal underworld for the head of the man who deflowered El Jefe's daughter.
Review:
What once seemed like the nadir of Peckinpah's career can now be viewed as its epitome: the violence, the misogyny, the view of Mexico, its women and liquor, the crime syndicate as evil as Harrigan in The Wild Bunch, the self-immolating finale. And Oates himself, who appears here almost as the proxy of his director. It was also probably the least interfered with of the films, and in a weird kind of way, there is something sublime about it.