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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Warren Oates , Isela Vega , Sam Peckinpah    R   DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)

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  • Audio Commentary by Sam Peckinpah scholars Paul Seydor Garner Simmons and David Weddle, with moderator Nick Redman
  • Original theatrical trailer

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Sam Peckinpah knew he couldn't call a movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and get away with it. That's why he did it. When he undertook this nakedly personal project, in self-exile in Mexico, the director was a deeply bitter man out of favor with critics, the media, and the Hollywood establishment, which had just released his Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid in a mutilated version. "Bring Me the Head..." sounded like the parody title of an ultraviolent Sam Peckinpah movie, and he flung it in our faces just as his onscreen surrogate tosses the titular object at the camera.

Thing is, the movie is a masterpiece--raw, shocking, beautiful, and brave--in which Peckinpah confronts his enemies and his own demons. Warren Oates plays a gringo piano-player stuck in Mexico who hears that some powerful men are willing to pay a bounty on a guy he knows. They don't know the guy is already dead, killed in a car accident. It'll be easy to exhume the trophy and collect the money--except that it will cost our seedy hero everything he has and ever wanted.

John Huston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre had always been a key legend for Peckinpah; this film is a subterranean re-imagining of it, with Oates as both the son of Fred C. Dobbs and the carnival-mirror reflection of Peckinpah himself. And Isela Vega's performance as the sainted whore Elita--bruised and worldly one minute, radiant and clear-skinned as a child the next--is an act of grace. --Richard T. Jameson

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Some people will do anything for a million dollars even if it means killing anyone who gets in their way! Written and directed by OscarÂ(r) nominee* Sam Peckinpah and starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winner** Gig Young, Warren Oates, Robert Webber, Kris Kristofferson and the seductively beautiful Isela Vega, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a gritty classic that vibrates with explosive action and nail-biting tension. When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced his daughter, two money-hungry men (Young and Webber) recruita small-town bartender (Oates) to help them do their dirty work. But their tequila-fueled trek across the desolate Mexican frontier grows more intense, gruesome and bloody with every savage murder they leave in their wake! *1969: Original Screenplay, The Wild Bunch (With Walon Greenand Roy N. Sickner) **1969: Supporting Actor, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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45 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Nobody Loses All The Time", March 30, 2005
By different drummer 63 (Lawrence, KS, USA) - See all my reviews
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The above is a line that Warren Oates as Benny delivers after one of the villains in suits calls him a loser. It's one of many dialogic gems in this volatile film, which vies with Straw Dogs as Sam Peckinpah's greatest movie of the 1970s. The title is so in your face that you expect a non-stop bloodbath but Peckinpah's after something else here, something that few directors or audiences have had the backbone to deal with. He takes a main character who looks, acts, and dresses like a loser in so many ways, and makes him human, vulnerable, tragic, and somehow moral in a world full of ruthless men corrupted by their almost absolute power. You know from the start that the movie won't end prettily, yet with Peckinpah at the helm, Oates in the male lead and the ravishing Isela Vega his doomed companion, a host of great character actors sinking their teeth into the rotting meat of their roles, and a vision of Mexico conveyed in stark but lyrical images, you have to take the ride with Benny all the way to the bitter end. In quantity of killings, this is not very violent as Peckinpah films go, certainly not close to The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett, or Cross of Iron. But the mood is so somber and bleak that it will test the strongest viewer threshold. There is also the trademark sly Peckinpah humor throughout, whistling through the graveyard with a bottle of tequila in one hand and a gun in the other. Some will call this misogynistic--yes, it depicts hate toward women but it doesn't endorse it. What Peckinpah is after is a wholesale condemnation of the human race, except for those few, like Benny, who recognize the farce for what it is and live and die with their choices, taking as many of the S.O.B.'s with them as they can, on their way down. A masterpiece.
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29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mercy!, December 8, 2002
Bring the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a rough film. It wasn't for the faint hearted back in '74 and it stil isn't. So many people got killed that I lost count. It depicts a brutal, filthy world and doesn't have an uplifting golly gee ending. I loved it. Warren Oates gave his finest performance as Benny, an American small timer who has one last chance to make it big. Benny is so cool he never takes off his shades even in bed. He doesn't hesitate to kill the bad yet his personal code won't allow him to harm the innocent.

The actress who plays his girlfriend is perfect. She's attractive but in a beat up been-around-the-block-too-many-times way. She spends a lot of time nude or semi nude in this movie but it's not cheap. She's a semi retired prostitute afterall. She ought to be a throw away character but she isn't. She's Benny's heart and although he doesn't know it, she, not dead Alfredo Garcia, is his last chance.

Yes, this is an ugly film but it's incredible. Put the kids to bed early, buy the video and sit back to watch a movie that still shocks and dazzles.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A violent love story, in which money is not enough., August 16, 1999
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Greasey repulsive loser Warren Oates is in love with a whore. As a matter of fact that is the only thing he has going for him. But he believes he also needs money to make him happy. By chasing after the money, his loved one dies. And as he continues to persue the money he finds that no amount of money will now take her place.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
I enjoy movies by Sam Peckinpah. This one is unusually raw even for Sam. Good "Pulp Fiction" type show.
Published 2 months ago by Gary T. Waldron

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great films of Sam Peckinpah
This is one of my favorite Sam Peckinpah movies. The seediness of the characters are captured in superb fashion but there is also humor and pathos to be had too. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Chris

5.0 out of 5 stars Another good one from Peckinpah
A lesser known offering from Sam Peckinpah, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia delivers the goods if youre a fan of his particular brand of cinematic violence. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Grapey Grimes

5.0 out of 5 stars Alfredo Garcia
I put off watching this film for years and years for one reason or another. Mostly because I couldn't find it in the stores where I lived. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Youell Swinney

4.0 out of 5 stars descent into hell
I have watched this movie over 50 times and assume that it is peckinpah's life or at least how he viewed it. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Michael A. Bonamassa

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutality from the inside out...
Easily one of the best films of 1974, `Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' is intelligent, alarming and brutally entertaining. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Andrew Ellington

4.0 out of 5 stars Bring me the head of Alfredo garcia
Great movie, as I expected; the price was right and the vendor's service excellent. I won't hesitate to buy from this vendor again.
Thanks! nelson Lozano
Published 22 months ago by Nelson M. Lozano

4.0 out of 5 stars Gross, but Engrossing
I just recently watched this again on DVD, surely one of the strangest movies ever released by a major studio and by a major American director. Read more
Published on June 28, 2008 by colinwoodward

4.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre and entertaining
This film is so weird that it's completely entertaining. I never could figure out, however, whether this movie is supposed to be serious or is a comedy. Read more
Published on May 25, 2008 by Ron Braithwaite

4.0 out of 5 stars Peckinpah's dark Mexican road trip.
"I think I can feel Sam Peckinpah's heart beating and head pounding in every frame in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"--Roger Ebert. Read more
Published on November 12, 2007 by G. Merritt

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