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1974 | Color | 112 min

A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement "!Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!" The bounty-hunters thus dispatched encounter a local piano player, who offers to bring them the head for a reward. 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, he sets off to earn the bounty, but this quest only brings him misery.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Peckinpah; Sam
Script: Peckinpah; Sam, Kowalski; Frank
Production: Baum; Martin
Photography: Phillips Jr.; Alex
Sound: Topete; Manuel, Colgan; Mike
Music: Castro; Arturo, Fielding; Jerry
Cast:Oates; Warren, Webber; Robert, Urueta; Chano, Kristofferson; Kris, Fernández; Emilio, Vega; Isela
Art direction: Ituarte; Agustin
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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