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Rolling Thunder
Why this pick
A scarred, morally ruined revenge story with the same sun-blasted fatalism, brutal eruptions of violence, and grim commitment to a protagonist already past salvation.
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MOVIE1974 1h 53m MEX
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Teresa, the pregnant teenage daughter of a powerful Mexico crime lord known only as "El Jefe" (Spanish language for "The Boss"), is summoned before her father and interrogated as to the identity of her unborn child's father. Under torture, she identifies the father as Alfredo Garcia, whom El Jefe had been grooming to be his successor. Infuriated, El Jefe offers a $1 million Bounty (reward) to whoever will "bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Warren Oates
Bennie
Emilio Fernández
El Jefe
Kris Kristofferson
Biker
Mónica Miguel
Dolores de Escomiglia
Isela Vega
Elita
Robert Webber
Sappensly
Gig Young
Quill
Helmut Dantine
Max