Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Directed by Sam Peckinpah · Cinematography by Álex Phillips Jr.

R112 min55 frames

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Why is his head worth one million dollars and the lives of 21 people?

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What is Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia about?

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1974 neo-Western film co-written and directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in supporting roles. The film is about a down-on-his-luck musician (Oates) who joins a deadly manhunt for the titular character, who is wanted after impregnating the daughter of a crime boss.

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Across 55 sampled frames, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia builds its coverage from medium shots (35% of the sample), with wide compositions (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Álex Phillips Jr. keeps 71% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) are #32302a, #545048, #ada692, #130f0e, #908879, #d5d1c9 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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