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Walker: Criterion Collection
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A haIlucinatory biopic that breaks alI cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox , teIIs the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker , who abandoned a series of careers in Iaw, politics, journaIism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune, and for several years dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and poIitical acuity - and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the Contra war - the fiIm uses this true tale as a satiricaI 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. |
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