Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

N.p. N.p., 1972. 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.

Yellow titled wrappers. 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. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Ebert II. Nilsen, Warped and Faded. Rosenbaum 1000. Twilight Time 497.

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