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Walker

Walker

DramaHistoryWestern
1987, Movie, 1h 35min
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.
Country: United States,Nicaragua,Spain,Mexico
Director:
Alex Cox
Cast:
Ed Harris,
Richard Masur,
René Auberjonois,
Keith Szarabajka
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Alex Cox
Director
Ed Harris
As William Walker
Richard Masur
As Ephraim Squier
René Auberjonois
As Maj. Siegfried Hennington
Keith Szarabajka
As Timothy Crocker
Sy Richardson
As Captain Hornsby
Xander Berkeley
As Byron Cole
John Diehl
As Stebbins

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Walker was released in theaters on December 4, 1987.

 

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