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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) More at IMDbPro »

• The only movie directed by Sam Peckinpah that he had final cut on - all the others were re-cut by the studios.
  
  
• Upon release, it was banned in Sweden, Germany and Argentina.
  
  
• Warren Oates copied Sam Peckinpah to play his part, right down to borrowing a pair of sunglasses from the director.
  
  
• Gig Young appears in the film at the bar where Warren Oates is playing piano. When he and Robert Webber leave, Oates asks Young his name and Young responds, "Fred C. Dobbs," a reference to Humphrey Bogart's character in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
  
  
• Isela Vega received a Best Actress nomination at the 1975 Ariel Awards held by the Academia Mexicana de Artesy y Ciencias Cinematograpficas. She lost to Pilar Pellicer, who won the Ariel for her role in Emilio Fernández's La choca (1974).
  
  
• One of the few critics to actually praise the film was Roger Ebert, who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism the following year.
  
  
• In the scene where the priest baptizes Alfredo's son, we can hear (in Latin) the child's name: David Samuel. Sam Peckinpah's full name is David Samuel Peckinpah.
  
  
• One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
  
  
• Graeme Garden has, for many years, been making a pun of the title of this movie in an on-running joke on the BBC Radio series "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".
  
  

• SPOILER: The original script called for Bennie to get away alive with both the money and head. But during shooting, Sam Peckinpah decided on his own that Oates had to die, and rewrote it as such.
  
  

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