Sam Peckinpah BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA Original screenplay #158698

  

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Author: Sam Peckinpah (director, screenwriter); Gordon T. Dawson (screenwriter); Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young (starring) Title: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Original screenplay for the 1974 film) Publication: N. Description: Early Draft script for the 1974 film, dated July 8, 1972, over a year before production commenced.

Script notably features the original ending with Bennie getting away-in true Peckinpah fashion, Peckinpah would later rewrite the ending to show Bennie dying in a shootout. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on fifteen pages, largely regarding spelling and grammatical corrections.

Warren Oates stars as Bennie, a bartender who travels through the Mexican underworld, accompanied by his sex worker girlfriend, to collect the bounty on the head of a gigolo. The only Peckinpah film not re-cut by the studio.

Shot on location in Mexico. Title page present, dated 7/8/72, with credits for screenwriters Gordon Dawson and Sam Peckinpah. 128 leaves, with last page of text numbered 126.

Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Subject: 1970s Cinema, Action Film, Directors, Film Scripts, Mystery and Crime, New Hollywood Cinema.

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