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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia went into production in late September 1973, and Peckinpah was quoted in an October issue of Variety magazine as saying, "For me, Hollywood no longer exists. It's past history.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young. An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia screens on Friday 21 and Monday 24 August 2015 in the National Film and Television School’s Passport to Cinema strand at the BFI Southbank, London.
Oct 28, 2001 · When a powerful Mexican named El Jefe (Emilio Fernandez) discovers that his daughter is pregnant, he commands, ”bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia,” and so large is the reward he offers that two bounty hunters (Gig Young and Robert Webber) come into the brothel looking for Alfredo, and that is how Bennie finds out about the head. He knows ...
- Frank Kowalski brought the idea to Peckinpah during a drive to Las Vegas, and the filmmaker was immediately intrigued. The pair worked up a treatment while working on Straw Dogs (1971), but they couldn’t quite crack the script.
- Many have suggested that Warren Oates’ character is meant as a self portrait of Peckinpah. Dawson confirms he wrote the character as a caricature of the filmmaker expecting Peckinpah would trim those elements, “but by god he didn’t take much away.”
- Peckinpah came to the film after having an extremely rough time making Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), and Dawson adds that “we all had a horrible time” on that film.
- Dawson recalls Peckinpah being a stubborn filmmaker who often held up production for his own inane reasons. “You can’t put a camera in his hands because he’s afraid to start, and then you can’t take it out of his hands” once he’s started filming.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia went into production in late September 1973 and in an October issue of Variety magazine, Peckinpah was quoted as saying, “For me, Hollywood no longer exists. It’s past history.
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May 8, 2017 · While it didn’t exactly finish his career: he’d go on to Cross of Iron and, er, Convoy and The Osterman Weekend and (thanks Wikipedia) end up directing Julian Lennon videos, Alfredo Garcia certainly marked the end of his A-list status as a director.
