Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Bennie, a down-on-his luck piano player in a Mexico City saloon, finds himself improbably involved in the hunt for Alfredo Garcia – a man with a million-dollar bounty on his head, having seduced the daughter of a powerful crime lord. 

Setting off on his bizarre mission with his girlfriend Elita, Bennie’s hopes of a quick pay-day soon dissipate as the pair’s road trip descends into a tequila-fuelled trek across the desolate Mexican frontier where violence is never far away. 

A potent, uncompromising cocktail of brutal violence and searing insight into the folly of man, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is vintage Sam Peckinpah: divisive, disquieting and impossible to ignore. 

Duration:
112 minutes

Languages:
English

Country of origin:
USA

Year of production:
1974

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