Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia R
It’s got guts!
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 13, 2017
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Warren Oates & Isela Vega | |
Performer: | Gig Young, Emilio Fernandez, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Webber & Helmut Dantine | |
Directed by | Sam Peckinpah | |
Screenplay by | Sam Peckinpah & Gordon Dawson | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Produced by | Martin Baum | |
Director of Photography: | Alex Phillips, Jr. | |
Executive Production by | Helmut Dantine |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- Oates excels, but the bleak brilliance is all Peckinpah's.
Empire
Rating: 4/4 --
The movie is some kind of bizarre masterpiece. It's probably not a movie that most people would like, but violence, with Peckinpah, sometimes becomes a psychic ballet.
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Chicago Sun-Times
It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.
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Parallax View
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A ferocious howl of a movie, the artistic equivalent of throwing your hands in the air and asking if anything is worth it.
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From the Front Row
Rating: B --
Intense gruesome crime melodrama that's set in modern Mexico.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.
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Seanax.com
It's a stunning, vital, visceral piece of work by a man who is obviously fearless when it comes to baring his soul in public.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
In 1974, Sam Peckinpah directed BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, a film that is, even for Peckinpah, relentlessly bleak in its portrayal of life. Tellingly, it was one of the last films Peckinpah produced; it was also the fearsome director's personal favorite of the many movies he directed. Warren Oates stars as Bennie, a piano-player who happens upon two bounty hunters who have been dispatched by a Mexican rancher to collect the head of Alfredo Garcia. It seems that Garcia had impregnated the rancher's daughter, who wants his head as indisputable proof that this deviant is dead, and won't be bothering his family again. Penniless and out of luck, Bennie does a little snooping of his own, discovers that his girlfriend knows where the final resting place of Garcia is, and decides to usurp the bounty hunters by severing Garcia's head and collecting the cash for himself. Peckinpah unleashes some ferocious scenes of violence as Bennie attempts to complete his task, while Oates is magnificent as Bennie, who slides into madness as events take a turn for the worse; he even resorts to talking to Garcia's decapitated head, and washing it in the shower.
A truly awesome addition to Peckinpah's canon of films, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA is often unfairly overlooked in favor of more popular Peckinpah fare such as THE WILD BUNCH and STRAW DOGS. While the film may be shot through with Peckinpah's trademark misogyny and violence, it nevertheless remains a potent ride through humanity's dark side, with Peckinpah training his unrelenting camera on some gruesome scenes that remain long in the memory after the final credits fade.
A truly awesome addition to Peckinpah's canon of films, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA is often unfairly overlooked in favor of more popular Peckinpah fare such as THE WILD BUNCH and STRAW DOGS. While the film may be shot through with Peckinpah's trademark misogyny and violence, it nevertheless remains a potent ride through humanity's dark side, with Peckinpah training his unrelenting camera on some gruesome scenes that remain long in the memory after the final credits fade.
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