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Walker (Motion picture)

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.

Blu-ray edition.

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

©2022

1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

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"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"--Container.

Criterion collection ; 423.

Walker, William, 1824-1860 -- Drama.

Filibusters -- Nicaragua -- Drama.

Nicaragua -- History -- 1838-1909 -- Drama.

Biographical films.

Historical films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Western films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Cox, Alex, 1954- film director, editor of moving image work.

Wurlitzer, Rudolph, screenwriter, writer of accompanying material.

O'Brien, Lorenzo, film producer.

Szarabajka, Keith, actor.

Richardson, Sy, actor.

Berkeley, Xander, 1955- actor.

Diehl, John, 1950- actor.

Guerra, Blanca, 1953- actor.

Fuller, Graham, 1956- writer of added commentary.

Sandoval, Linda, writer of supplementary textual content

Pressman, Edward R., film producer.

Flores Marini, Angel, film producer.

Harris, Ed, 1950- actor.

Masur, Richard, actor.

Auberjonois, René, 1940-2019, actor.

Boyle, Peter, 1935-2006, actor.

Matlin, Marlee, actor.

Sandoval, Miguel, 1951- actor.

Bridges, David (Cinematographer), director of photography.

Puente, Carlos, editor of moving image work.

Strummer, Joe, composer (expression)

Universal Pictures (Firm), production company.

Walker Films Limited, production company.

Incine (Firm), production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Originally produced in 1987.

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.

Wide screen (1.85:1)

Accompanied by booklet containing essays by film critic Graham Fuller, actor and author Linda Sandoval, and Rudy Wurlitzer.

Director of photography, David Bridges; editors, Carlos Puente & Alex Cox; music composed by Joe Strummer.

Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Sy Richardson, Xander Berkeley, John Diehl, Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval, Marlee Matlin, Blanca Guerra.

Blu-ray, region A; monaural.

In English with some American Sign language subtitled in English; optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired.

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