a5c7b9f00b A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement–'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!' Two of the bounty-hunters thus dispatched encounter a local piano-player in their hunt for information. The piano-player does a little investigating on his own and finds out that his girlfriend knows of Garcia's death and last resting place. Thinking that he can make some easy money and gain financial security for he and his (now) fiancée, they set off on this goal. Of course, this quest only brings him untold misery, in the form of trademark Peckinpah violence.
An American barroom pianist 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.
Normally I don't expect much from Sam Peckinpah's obscure and often uneven filmography, except I saw Straw Dogs on Criterion Collection DVD and that was, to put it succinctly, a revenge movie that inspire genuinely revolting horror in the unsuspecting viewers. I could never forget such powerful impact Straw Dogs left on mea casual movie viewer.<br/><br/>The movie Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia inspired genuine shock in me. Strangely, I was *never* shocked by such infamously brutal movies – Irreversible, Fight Club, Hostel, Robocop, Reservoir Dogs, etc included. I think the only films capable of shocking me were the first time I saw The Changeling and Japanese version of The Ring uninterrupted.<br/><br/>The character development in the first half of this movie may be a bit too slow, but it paid off magnificently with the interesting plot (however slow-developing with the main protagonist & his girlfriend), rivaling suspense, unbelievable action and shocking conclusion that feels like enduring a hard punch in the stomach.<br/><br/>As I said above, I was a tad underwhelmed by the slow progress that seems more like a romantic adventure than a typical Peckinpah bulletfest. Then I remember this also occurred while watching Straw Dogs, so I stayed patient, hoping the dividend would pay off.<br/><br/>It did and it exceeded my expectation in the final half. I never felt such compassion for the main protagonist who at first seemed callous and greedy but turned around to become someone else entirely different, like a conscience change the person from an amoral person in pursuit of avarice to a courageous person in pursuit of exacting vengeance and justice for the irreversible loss of self-respect and integrity in the span of 48 hours. One of the other films with the similar character arc is 1998 Brazil movie The Central Station and I'll never forget the first time I saw that movie in the sparsely populated small art-house theatre screening and I cried my eyes out at the ending.<br/><br/>The character named Benjamino, also called Benny, started outa selfish happy-go-lucky scumbag loser and ended upan outraged, disillusioned man who seek redemption only to become a martyr. The conclusive ending has such a screen-rippingly violent impact that it was shocking for me, evena self-proclaimed jaded viewer who expect maybe a little too much.<br/><br/>No wonder this film was banned in some countries and its original MPAA rating an X. This is Sam Peckinpah in gauging his raw power to the extreme in viscerally mind-bending emotions. I haven't seen many Peckinpah films to compare to this film. I saw NC-17 rated The Wild Bunch on VHS, but it's been over a decade since I saw that movie and I don't remember except a prolonged battle sequence towards the ending.<br/><br/>Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia may be 32 years old, but it retains the amazing impact that might not be equalized in achieving the mesmerizing effect on the viewer with shock of violence and in-the-character raw emotion by the fantastic actor who plays Benny, Warren Oates – slow romantic interlude scenes notwithstanding.<br/><br/>I see the photos of Sam Peckinpaha director who wears these unique sunglasses and have a distinct fashion & behavioral style, and Warren Oates seem to have literally embodied Mr. Peckinpah, partly to release the personal demons in venting frustration & despair and partly to achieve the penultimate level of neo-realist acting caliber that is seldomly (perhaps never, not even post-Godfather Marlon Brando) matched nowadays. This film is quite a feat in achievement in pushing the buttons on the viewer's reactions, pro and con, and not come offcontrivedly manipulative for cynical purposes, owing to Peckinpah, Oates, the diligent supporting cast and the talented production crew's consistent quality styling in providing enough ice cold water & vodka substance and no sugar or syrup.<br/><br/>Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a no-holds-barred movie and it holds up excellent in impact after three decades. Nothing will date the film at all, it's a perfect production with setting and atmosphere that make for a stimulating movie entertainment. Sam Peckinpah & Warren Oates did a fantastic work together! <br/><br/>****
Warren Oates delivers the best performance of his cinematic career in director Sam Peckinpah's melodrama "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," co-starring Emilio Fernández, Helmet Dantine, Robber Webber, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, and Isela Vega. According to the Internet Movie Database, this R-rated, 112-minute, masterpiece represented the only film that Peckinpah ever possessed the distinction of final cut. Of course, like most Peckinpah parables, "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" is bloody, violent, and unintentionally funny. A suave gigolo—Alfredo Garcia—impregnates the daughter of a wealthy patron named El Jefe, and the scandalized father demands that somebody dothe title indicates. Everybody is suddenly on Garcia's trail, including a sleazy nightclub musician, Benny (Warren Oates of "Return of the Seven"), who fallen in love with a prostitute Elita (Isela Vega of "Barbarosa") who knew the person of interest. Meantime, El Jefe has authorized a group of Americans, headed up by Max (Helmut Dantine of "The Killer Elite"), to find that noggin. Max has two trigger-happy gay killers, Sappensly (Robert Webber of "10") and Quill (Oscar winning actor Gig Young of "They Shoot Horses, Don't They") to handle the business of getting the head. Eventually, Bennie finds out of the interest in Alfredo and persuades Elita to help him find the gigolo. Things turn out easy at first because Alfredo is already dead. Nevertheless, things suddenly turn complicated when Bennie is robbing Alfredo's grave and he is knocked unconscious by a shovel. As it turns out, two other Mexicans are going to claim the 'head' and take it back to El Jefe. When Bennie recovers with a headache, he discovers that he has been buried where Alfredo's grave is and Elita has suffocated to death because she had been buried alongside him. Later, Bennie tracks down these two dastards and kills them in a roadside shoot-out that Max's two bounty hunters Sappensly and Quill participate in and both die.<br/><br/>Nothing about "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" is glorious. This is a personal film for Peckinpah, and he doesn't resort to the usual Hollywood bravura. During the first half of it, Bennie is pretty much a milquetoast musician, but he turns into a killer later on and handles himself well in a gunfire. Now that Bennie has gotten the head, he wants to know why prompted El Jefe to have it. Our Bennie gets nowhere. He shoots it out with Max and his bodyguards, and then he visits El Jefe to ask him the big question. When he doesn't get a response, Bennie drills the father and tries to careen out the gates, but he is brought down by an small army of riflemen. Initially, Peckinpah had asked James Coburn to portray Bennie, but Coburn turned him down. Warren Oates gives a soulful performance. Robert Webber and Gig Youngquietly sadisticthe two homosexual hit men. "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" is a strong, realistic film that is for the squeamish. Kris Kristofferson appears in a cameoa rapist who barges in on Bennie and Elita when they are sitting down to a picnic.


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