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Walker 1987

Touching on both William Walker's filibusters of the 1850s and the US's military's "exercises" in Nicaragua during the 1980s, the film seems especially poignant and timely for a watch/rewatch right now. Current US intervention in nations like Venezuela and Argentina are the beginning of tales we all know too well.

"... ALEX COX, TELLS THE STORY OF NINETEENTH--CENTURY AMERICAN ADVENTURER WILLIAM WALKER..."

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on assorted film stills (and two gifs) from the 1987 historical Weird Western film, "Walker," directed by Alex Cox and written by Rudy Wurlitzer. The film stars Ed Harris as William Walker, the American filibuster who invaded and made himself president of Nicaragua.

FILM: "Walker"

DIRECTOR: Alex Cox

SCREENPLAY: Rudy Wurlitzer

PRODUCED: Lorenzo O'Brien, Angel Flores Marini

CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Bridges

DISTRIBUTED: Universal Pictures

RELEASE DATE: December 4, 1987

OVERVIEW: "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 ultra-patriotism 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."

-- CRITERION COLLECTION, c. February 2008

Sources: https://denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-rudy-wurlitzer-the-drop-edge-of-yonder-2008-2, Criterion Collection, Wikipedia, various, etc...