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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sam Peckinpah released in USA on 14 august 1974 with Warren Oates
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
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Add to a movie listBring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 American cult action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates.
Made in Mexico on a low budget after the commercial failure of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Peckinpah claimed that, of all his films, Alfredo García was the only one released as he had intended. The film was a box-office and critical failure at the time, but has gained a new following and stature in the decades since.
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Teresa, the pregnant teenage daughter of a powerful man known only as "El Jefe" (Spanish for "The Boss") (Emilio Fernández), is summoned before her father and interrogated as to the identity of her unborn child's father. Under torture, she identifies the father as Alfredo Garcia, whom El Jefe had been grooming to be his successor. Infuriated, El Jefe offers a $1 million reward to whoever will "bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia."Actors
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