Romanticized Mexican madonna and child. Satirized Anglo housewives. Villainized lawmen. Existentialized hero. Tony Richardson's experience with British working-class dramas in the days of the Angry Young Men prepared him well for the bleak landscape -- both natural and industrial -- around El Paso, Texas, and he gets much mileage (or footage, rather) out of those unstylish and impenetrable sunglasses favored by law officers everywhere. But where, one might wonder, was Sam Peckinpah when they were looking for someone to direct this project? Jack Nicholson, Vallerie Perrine, Harvey Keitel, and Warren Oates. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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