Warren Oates,
Isela Vega,
Gig Young,
Robert Webber,
Helmut Dantine
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An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
Stats: 559 reviews
Not all moments in this film are winners - specifically the first half of the film. It's all spent getting to know Bennie and his friend/girlfriend/whatever she is to him. All of this leads up to the cemetery scene. Everything after that is great. It's just that first half th... read more
The first hour of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was one of the most gruelingly dull movieviewing experiences of my life. Yes, Sam Peckinpah perfectly nailed the daunting grittiness of Warren Oates' (who stole the show, by the way) miserable existence but all I saw was some ... read more
Peckinpah's nihilistic trip is still fresh to this date, and still capable of split opinions as much as in it's time. It's in the vein of Corbucci's "The Great Silence", a bleak and dark story where there is no glory for anyone involved. It's a one way trip to doom and tragedy, a... read more
bloody fantastic 70's grindhouse style thriller. it doesn't get any grittier. warren oates goes from loser to total badass! great atmosphere. this is the kinda stuff tarantino and rodriguez try to manufacture with varying results. see the real deal
Slated by critics at the time, if Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid was Peckinpah's tale of the death of the west, this is it's "resurrection". QT and particularly Robert Rodriguez has obviously taken a lot of cues from it, and it deserves it's cult status. My favourite Peckinpah film.
Warren Oates is always fun to watch, and this film has one of the greatest titles ever. But I just don't relate to director Sam Peckinpah's ugly fascination with violence and machismo. And his trademark, slow-motion gimmick is grossly overused.
"Alfredo Garcia" surprised me, tho... read more
[font=Century Gothic]In "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia", Benny(Warren Oates) spends his nights toiling in a dive bar in a Mexican resort town when opportunity suddenly appears in the form of two hitmen(Robert Webber & Gig Young) who are looking for Alfredo Garcia.(It seems ... read more
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. Full Review
For Peckinpah, nothing is so ennobling as to face death in Mexico for the right reason. Full Review
Fermented in a tragic romanticism placed firmly in a no-man's land between liberation and capitalism, Sam Peckinpah's 1974 thriller is a film that sticks in your mind's eye like a lingering sun spot. Full Review
Em seu filme mais pessoal, Peckinpah cria um anti-herói trágico que, através de cotidiano repleto de crueza e miséria, alcança uma improvável redenção através de suas ações e intenções tortuosas.
It stands as one of Peckinpah's more daring films. Full Review
Fermented in a tragic romanticism placed firmly in a no-man's land between liberation and capitalism, Sam Peckinpah's 1974 thriller is a film that sticks in your mind's eye like a lingering sun spot. Full Review
Oates' antihero is among the loneliest men in the cinema, and one of its greatest performances. Full Review
Here's your head's up: Trashy and savagely comic, Alfredo Garcia is a voyage into the twisted head of one of Hollywood's most uncompromising directors. Full Review
For something so bleak, so purposely revolting and unsentimental, there are reservoirs of profound poetry in Alfredo Garcia, the only film that Peckinpah ever considered completely his own. Full Review
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