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...will continue to work with the Indochina Peace Campaign and the Chilean Action Group to demand the freeing of all political prisoners in both areas and will help sponsor a rally for Puerto Rican Independence on Monday October 6 with Angela Davis and Alfredo Lopez as speakers, Steven J. Carlip '75 said...
...Mexico. Once long ago Paulette "Goddard came into the joint and requested a tune, but the place has gone downhill since then. Bennie still keeps a bleary lookout for a buck, and his greed and desperation get him hooked into a feudal revenge scheme to track down a certain Alfredo Garcia and separate him from his head. Bennie does not ask who specifically requires Alfredo's head; such matters are of secondary importance...
What does concern him is that Alfredo's head will fetch a bounty of $10,000 and that Bennie's girl friend (Isela Vega) has just wrapped up an affair with Alfredo, who really seems to have got around. Alfredo has also impregnated the daughter of some big back-country honcho (Emilio Fernandez), who happens to be the fellow looking to have him done in. Bennie does not find this out until practically the last scene, when he has eliminated a lot of middlemen, mostly by gunfire. For the balance of the action, blistering jealousy and outright greed...
Peckinpah spends a lot of gleeful time showing Alfredo's head in a sack, being rudely bumped on the front seat of Bennie's car and swarming with dozens of interested flies. The movie has its fair share of action and a good deal of bloodletting, but gets ragged and desultory in the quieter portions...
Beat the Devil was good-humored and breezy, however, and Alfredo Garcia is full of fury and bile. It is a troubling, idiosyncratic and finally unsuccessful film-troubling not for the feelings of horror it intermittently tries to conjure up but for the impression it gives of being a dead end. It is like a private bit of self-mockery, a sort of ritual of closet masochism that invites, even challenges, everyone to think the worst...