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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
bleakgrittyrelentlessvisceralcynicalgrimrawdesperate
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)
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