Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Directed by

Sam Peckinpah

Genre

drama film, action film, Western film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Mexico, United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 424 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A down-on-his-luck musician in Mexico takes on a job to find a man named Alfredo Garcia for a crime boss. His search leads him into a violent spiral of betrayal and murder.

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What happens

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 neo-Western film co-written and directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles. The film is about a down-on-his-luck musician (Oates) who joins a deadly manhunt for the titular character, who is wanted after impregnating the daughter of a crime boss. Made in Mexico on a low budget after the commercial failure of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Alfredo García was, so Peckinpah claimed, the only one of his films released as he had intended. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but has gained a new following and stature in the decades since. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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