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- 1974
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
- 1974
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
Summary An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: Gordon T. Dawson, Frank Kowalski, Sam Peckinpah
- 1974
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
- 1974
- R
- United Artists
- 1 h 52 m
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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7.8
Summary An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: Gordon T. Dawson, Frank Kowalski, Sam Peckinpah
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
80
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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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.
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.
Sure, it's one of the silliest titles of all time, especially if you make a drinking game of substituting words for Head? chair, spleen, lunch, etc. But it's a masterpiece from The Wild Bunch director Sam Peckinpah. [22 Mar 2005, p.H22]
It's all sweat, death and bloody retribution: one of Peckinpah's finest. [03 Apr 2010, p.53]
The film's story - about a gringo loser (Warren Oates) who digs up and decapitates a body to claim a reward - seems much less gratuitously shocking today, and its dated brand of macho pessimism has a nostalgic appeal. [14 Jun 2002]
For a film renowned for its violence, Garcia unfolds at a leisured, almost lugubrious, pace with scenes allowed to unspool at a length that would never be allowed in any Hollywood thriller today.
Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia is turgid melodrama [from a story by Frank Kowalski and Sam Peckinpah] at its worst.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.8
80% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.8
80% Positive
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Awards
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 1 Nomination
Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 1 Nomination
