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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia concluded a remarkable period for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. It brought to an end a seven-year and seven-film run of masterpieces that included the taboo-breaking ultra-violence of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and the more elegiac tones of The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia sits somewhere between these moods and may just be Bloody Sam s greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical.
Warren Oates plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). Sensing an easy pay day, Bennie takes his girlfriend, Elita (Isela Vega) on a trip that ll prove fatalistic for many of those involved.
During a career that was blighted by studio interference, Peckinpah would later say that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was the only which ended up exactly as he wanted: I did it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not, that was my film. And it was. This is as close to Pure Peckinpah as it gets beautiful, violent, troubling, heartbreaking, astonishing.
- Arrow Video
- 112 minutes
- Sam Peckinpah
- 18
- Warren Oates
- Isela Vega
- Gig Young
- Robert Webber
- Helmut Dantine
- English SDH
- 16:9 - 1.85:1
- English
- 1
- B
- 2
- Arrow Video
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Arrow Films
Nobody loses all the time.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia concluded a remarkable period for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. It brought to an end a seven-year and seven-film run of masterpieces that included the taboo-breaking ultra-violence of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and the more elegiac tones of The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia sits somewhere between these moods and may just be Bloody Sam s greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical.
Warren Oates plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). Sensing an easy pay day, Bennie takes his girlfriend, Elita (Isela Vega) on a trip that ll prove fatalistic for many of those involved.
During a career that was blighted by studio interference, Peckinpah would later say that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was the only which ended up exactly as he wanted: I did it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not, that was my film. And it was. This is as close to Pure Peckinpah as it gets beautiful, violent, troubling, heartbreaking, astonishing.
- Arrow Video
- 112 minutes
- Sam Peckinpah
- 18
- Warren Oates
- Isela Vega
- Gig Young
- Robert Webber
- Helmut Dantine
- English SDH
- 16:9 - 1.85:1
- English
- 1
- B
- 2
- Arrow Video
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Bring Me The Alfredo Garcia
An excellent blu ray from Arrow with literally hours of extras especially I interviews - I first this on a R1 dvd years with the commentary but this is a superb edition of one of Sam Peckinpahs best films - his last last best film was Cross Of Iron - and BMTHOAG has the usual trademarks of the director - slow motion, fast editing and of course the violence- brilliant
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This so far has been the best edition of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. Sound and picture quality are top-notch. If Arrow gets their hands on The Wild Bunch you can consider me sold.
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