WALKER - BLU-1987-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Drama, Western
• Plot: A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, 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 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 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: Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Sy Richardson, Xander Berkeley, John Diehl, Peter Boyle, Marlee Matlin, Alfonso Arau, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Roberto López Espinoza, Gerrit Graham, William O'Leary, Blanca Guerra, Alan Bolt, Miguel Sandoval, René Assa, Bennet Guillory, Norbert Weisser, Bruce Wright, Richard Edson, Karl Braun, Linda Callahan, Milton Selzer, Richard Zobel, Renn Woods, Frederick Neumann, David Hayman, Edward Tudor-Pole, Joe Strummer, Sharon Barr, Kathy Burke, Fox Harris, Enrique Beraza, Luis Contreras, Ed Pansullo, Jack Slater, Spider Stacy, Del Zamora, Biff Yeager, William Utay, George Belanger, Zander Schloss, William Rothlein, David Chung, Paulino Rodriguez, Dick Rude, Rudy Wurlitzer, Bob Tzudiker, Nestor Mendez Garcia, Rick Barker, J.D. Silvester, Robert Dickman, Joe Celeste, Martin Aylett, Ramón Álvarez, Raymond Kettless, Tom Collins, Louis Mathews, Dexter Taylor, Michele Winstanley, Helene Farber, Ronald Reagan, Alex Cox, Angel Flores Marini, Lorenzo O'Brien, David Bridges, Carlos Puente, Richard Beggs
• Director: Alex Cox
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Universal Studios, Universal Studios Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie