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Directed by | Sam Peckinpah |
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Produced by | Martin Baum |
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Cinematography | Alex Phillips Jr. |
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Music by | Jerry Fielding |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
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Budget | $1.5 million (estimated) |
Box office | $700,000 (US/Canada rentals)[3] |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 neo-Western[4] film directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-written by Peckinpah and Gordon Dawson from a story by Peckinpah and Frank Kowalski, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles.
Made in Mexico on a low budget after the commercial failure of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Alfredo García was, so Peckinpah claimed, the only one of his films released as he had intended. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but has gained a new following and stature in the decades since.[5]