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Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia | 
| Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Helmut Dantine, Rene Dupeyron, Tamara Garina, Enrique Lucero, Warren Oates
Studio: MGM
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 7151
Format: Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1008007
UPC: 027616920522
EAN: 0027616920522
ASIN: B0006TPDPM
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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Sam Peckinpah knew he couldn't call a movie IBring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia/I and get away with it. That's why he did it. When he made 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 IPat Garrett Billy the Kid/I in a mutilated version. "Bring Me the Head..." sounded 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.p 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.p John Huston's ITreasure of the Sierra Madre/I 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. I--Richard T. Jameson/I
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 weirdly cool unforgettable August 11, 2006
Raegan Butcher (RainCity, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is some kind of bizarre masterpiece. The title says everything you need to know about the plot. Warren Oates is perfect as the displaced gringo who isn't really a bad guy but who is willing to cut a few moral corners to get what he thinks he wants and he is matched by Isela Vegas as his earthy and sensual girlfriend who is horrified to be on such a mission. Gig Young Robert Webber seem to be channeling William Burroughs with their off-kilter couple of gay hit-men. Kris Kristofferson shows up as a rapist-biker. And the severed head is carried around in a grisly burlap bag that collects flies at a furoius rate. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? br / br /i am not sure what Sam Peckinpah is trying to say here , maybe, LIFE SUCKS, DIE. or perhaps, "All is vanity--except maybe there is something that isn't." but he has made a strange, sad poem about the human condition, with gunfights!
Warren Oates July 4, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is only one other actor that could replace Warren Oates, and that is Steve McQueen. This movie was excellent.
bring me the head of alfredo garcia June 22, 2004
Nial Westwood (London UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Please release this masterpice on DVD as soon as possible.brDark humour, twisted and very violent. A must for Peckinpah fans.
 Ludicrous May 3, 2004
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Easily Peckinpah's worst film and one of the worst American movies of the 1970's. It marked the beginning of the director's decline into booze-and-drug self-absorption from which he never emerged. The plot is too ridiculous to merit recounting: just more of Peckinpah's Mexican malarkey. When the film came out the multi-screen cineplex was just being introduced around the country. The title was too long to fit onto the smaller marquees and it was shortened variously to Bring Me Alfredo Garcia, Alfredo Garcia's Head, and memorably Bring Me a Head.
Another Great Fatalistic Peckinpah Film October 25, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The film is another great Peckinpah fatalistic film where our dubious hero goes all out to set things square.pWarren Oates plays a great role as the sleazy American expatriot who retrieves the head of Alfredo Garcia, a Mexican Don Juan who looked up the wrong skirt. Isela Vega plays Oates' sleazy girlfriend who knows where Garcia can be found and wants to join on the quest and reward. The audience follows Oates' journey through Mexico in search of his morbid prize and is kept in suspense as he seeks to overcome the challenges he encounters along the way.pAgain, this is a typical Peckinpah film where there's a very fine line between the heroes and their antagonists. The fatalistic ending follows the traditional ending genre common to his other films such as the Wild Bunch and Cross of Iron. Altogether a great movie that is entertaining, particularly for men, to watch. If you've never watched a film by Peckinpah before, I would recommend you watch The Wild Bunch first to see if that is your taste in film: not only is it his best film, the film quality and sound is better all around.
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