Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

film by Peckinpah [1974]

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 ultraviolent film directed by Sam Peckinpah. The movie follows a bartender who becomes a remorseless bounty hunter in search of a man who impregnated a wealthy family's daughter. The cast includes Warren Oates, Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young, and Robert Webber. Peckinpah was known for his lyrical yet ultraviolent films that explored morality and identity. While The Wild Bunch is considered his finest movie, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia also received attention for its gritty style.12

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A similar response greeted Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), a laconic ultraviolent exercise about the search for the man who impregnated the daughter of a wealthy family. The cast included Oates as a bartender turned remorseless bounty hunter, Kristofferson as a motorcycle-riding rapist, and Gig Young…
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A similar response greeted Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), a laconic ultraviolent exercise about the search for the man who impregnated the daughter of a wealthy family. The cast included Oates as a bartender turned remorseless bounty hunter, Kristofferson as a motorcycle-riding rapist, and Gig Young…
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