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Walker, Universal ; written by Rudy Wurlitzer ; directed by Alex Cox ; an Edward R. Pressman production in association with Incine ; producer, Angel Flores Marini ; produced by Lorenzo O'Brien ; a film by Alex Cox ; Walker Film Production, Inc
The resource Walker, Universal ; written by Rudy Wurlitzer ; directed by Alex Cox ; an Edward R. Pressman production in association with Incine ; producer, Angel Flores Marini ; produced by Lorenzo O'Brien ; a film by Alex Cox ; Walker Film Production, Inc represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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Summary
  • A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the 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 ultra patriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of 'manifest destiny.' Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense, repressed rage by Harris, it remains one of Cox's most daring works
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  • eng
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  • Director-approved Blu-ray edition.
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  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987
  • Wide screen (1.85:1)
  • Special features: commentary soundtrack with director Cox and screenwriter Wurlitzer; "Dispatches from Nicaragua," a making-of featurette; "On moviemaking and the Revolution," a featurette with reminiscences twenty years later from an extra on the film; "The immortals, ' photo gallery; plus a booklet featuring peices by film critic Graham Fuller, actor and writer Linda Sandoval, and Wurlitzer
Physical description
  • 1 videodisc (94 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in.
Specific material designation
  • videodisc
Isbn
  • 9781681439242
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