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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Original title)
Date: 1974 (Copyright)

Countries: USA, Mexico

Directed by: Sam Peckinpah

Production company billing: ©1974. United Artists Corporation [opening logos] Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists (entertainment from Transamerica Corporation) a Martin Baum - Sam Peckinpah film [end] an Optimus Production - Estudios Churubusco co-production MPAA: 23989 [1.85:1]
Synopsis: 3rd Stunt Co-ordinator Duffy Hambleton is mis-credited as 'Duffy Hambledon'.Synopsis: The lure of money transforms Bennie, a down-trodden piano player, into a bounty hunter when he is asked by a wealthy Mexican to find the head of Alfredo Garcia who has impregnated his daughter.

Genre:
Thriller
Releases
Date: 14 August 1974Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - SoundRuntime: 112 mins Length: 10098 FeetLanguage: English

Credits (48)
©: United Artists Corporation, Co-production: Optimus Productions, S.A. Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Executive Producer: Helmut Dantine, Produced by: Martin Baum, Associate Producer: Gordon Dawson, Unit Production Manager: Carlos Terron Garcia, Executive Production Manager: William C. Davidson, Production Co-ordinator: Yannoulla Wakefield, Production Assistant to the Director: Katherine Haber, Production Assistant: Jim Preminger, Production Assistant: Dan York, Dialogue Director: Sharon Peckinpah, First Assistant Director: William C. Davidson, Assistant Director: Jesús Marín, Script Supervisor: Trudy von Trotha, Casting Director: Claudia Becker, Screenplay: Gordon Dawson, Screenplay: Sam Peckinpah, Story: Frank Kowalski, Sam Peckinpah, Director of Photography: Alex Phillips Jr, Special Effects: Léon Ortega, Special Effects: Raúl Falomir, Special Effects: Federico Farfán, Supervising Editor: Garth Craven, Editor: Robbe Roberts, Editor: Sergio Ortega, Editor: Dennis E. Dolan, Art Director: Agustin Ituarte, Set Dresser: Enrique Estevez, Property Master: Alf Pegley, Wardrobe: Adolfo Ramírez, Make Up: Rosa Guerrero, Titles by: Latigo Productions, Pacific Title, Music by: Jerry Fielding, Orchestrator: Greg Mcritchie, Leonard Niehaus, Mexican Music Co-ordinator: Arturo Castro, Music Editor: Dan Carlin, Sound Mixer: Manuel Topete, [Sound] Re-recording Mixer: Harry W. Tetrick, Sound Editor: Mike Colgan, Stunt Co-ordinator: Gary Combs, Stunt Co-ordinator: Whitey Hughes, Stunt Co-ordinator: Duffy Hambleton
Cast (26)
Warren Oates (Bennie), Isela Vega (Elita), Robert Webber (Sappensly), Gig Young (Quill), Helmut Dantine (Max), Emilio Fernández (El Jefe), Kris Kristofferson (Paco), Chano Urueta (one-armed bartender), Donny Fritts (John), Jorge Russek (Cueto), Chalo González (Chalo), Don Levy (Frank), Enrique Lucero (Estaban), Janine Maldonado (Theresa), Tamara Garina (Grandmother Moreno), Farnesio de Bernal (Bernardo), Ahui Camacho (El Chavito), Monica Miguel (Dolores De Escomiglia), Paco Pharres (El Carpintero), Juan Manuel Diaz (Paulo), René Dupeyron (Angel), Yolanda Ponce (Yolo), Juan José Palacios (Juan), Manolo (tourist guide), Neri Ruiz (Maria), Roberto Dumont (Chavo)