Maybe its an age thing, but as I get older I find I appreciate Ride the High Country a lot more than stuff like Alfredo Garcia and Wild Bunch (still love ’em though).
Ford had John Wayne, Scorcese has DeNiro/DiCaprio…Peckinpah had Warren Oates. With BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, Peckinpah provides Oates with his best ever role…and a rare lead. In fact, this is surely Oates’s HAMLET. Oates makes what is essentially a grave-robbing sleaze into a very sympathetic character. Isela Vega is excellent and is nicely matched with Oates.
A real return to form after the efficient journeyman work Peckinpah had done on THE GETAWAY. It’s also his most ironic work. The rest of the cast, which includes brief appearances by Robert Webber, Gig Young and Kris Kristoferson, is great. A classic.
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I still think this is a helluva of a movie, I love the acting, the action and for me The head of Alfredo Garcia is a triip, a good trip, but I fell in love with Peckinpah with "the wild Bunch’ and I have loved most everything he has done, when I first saw the Wild Bunch I knew I was watching something special, a movie I have to see at least once a year.