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Walker (Criterion Collection)

 

 

Written, Edited and Directed by Alex Cox

US 1987 / Action / Satire / Docudrama / Biography / 94 min / Color / Monaural / 1.85: 1  Widescreen Anamorphic / NTSC / In English with Optional English Subtitles



Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin , Peter Boyle , Blanca Guerra, Keith Szarabajka, Richard Masur , Sy Richardson.

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.

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Bonus Features:

- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Alex Cox
- Audio commentary by Cox and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer
- Dispatches from Nicaragua, an original documentary about the filming of Walker
- On Moviemaking and the Revolution, reminiscences twenty years later from an extra on the film
- The Immortals: behind-the-scenes photos