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Walker: The Criterion Collection

DVD - APPROX. 94 MINS. - 1987 - US Rating: R

Main feature:

Release Feb 19, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1987
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • Audio commentary by Alex Cox and Rudy Wurlitzer
  • Dispatches from Nicaragua, an original documentary
  • On Moviemaking and the Revolution
  • The Immortals, behind-the-scenes images
  • Alex Cox on Walker's reviews

Synopsis:

A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy), tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune, and for several years dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity - and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the Contra war - the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American ultrapatriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of "manifest destiny." Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense, repressed rage by Harris, Walker remains one of Cox's most daring works.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Ed HarrisRene AuberjonoisPeter BoyleMarlee MatlinSy RichardsonJohn DiehlBlanca Guerra"Walker: The Criterion Collection"
Written byRudy Wurlitzerproduced byEdward R. Pressman
directed byAlex Cox
Production Year: 1987

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