Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Warren OatesBennie
- Isela VegaElita
- Robert WebberSappensly
- Gig YoungQuill
- Helmut DantineMax
- Emilio FernándezEl Jefe
- Kris KristoffersonBiker
- Chano UruetaManchot
- Donnie FrittsJohn
- Jorge RussekCueto
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is Sam Peckinpah making movies flat out, giving us a desperate character he clearly loves, and asking us to somehow see past the horror and the blood to the sad poem he's trying to write about the human condition. - 100
Slant Magazine
Like few modern films, Alfredo Garcia seems to not only be a product of a director’s singular vision, but a virtual window into one man’s fractured, tortured soul. - 100
Time Out
Readable equally as a bleak, brutal exploitation movie and as a horrified, humanist cry from a disturbed soul, Alfredo Garcia is a worthy rediscovery. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia does have some sloppy photography, a few unintentionally humorous scenes, and an excess of Peckinpah's signature slow-motion violence, but it stands as one of Peckinpah's more daring films. - 89
Austin Chronicle
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a profound existential adventure, twistedly comic and openly bitter, brought to life by those two maniacs: Peckinpah and Oates. - 83
The A.V. Club
The honesty behind Garcia's queasiest moments gives the film its pull. - 80
Empire
Bleak brilliance. - 75
Chicago Reader
Certainly one of the director's most personal and obsessive works—even comparable in some respects to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano in its bottomless despair and bombastic self-hatred, as well as its rather ghoulish lyricism.
