Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, Mexico
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
- prostitute
- bounty hunter
- mexico
- bartender
- revenge
- murder
- gunfight
- brutality
- death
- suitcase full of money
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Helmut Dantine — Max
- Emilio Fernández — El Jefe
- Kris Kristofferson — Biker
- Chano Urueta — Manchot
- Donnie Fritts — John
- Jorge Russek — Cueto
- Chalo González — Chalo
- Don Levy — Frank
- Enrique Lucero — Esteban
- Janine Maldonado — Theresa
- Tamara Garina — Grandmother Moreno
- Directed
- Sam Peckinpah
- Written
- Sam Peckinpah, Gordon T. Dawson, Frank Kowalski
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 434 ratings
- Studio
- Optimus Films, Estudios Churubusco Azteca, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
