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Suitcase Full Of Money | Mexico
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Best Foreign Film | 1981
Best Actress Mejor Actuacin Femenina | 1975 | Isela
Budget 1,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 700,000 USD
The only movie directed by Sam Peckinpah that he had final cut on - all the others were re-cut by the studios.
Warren Oates copied Sam Peckinpah to play his part, right down to borrowing a pair of sunglasses from the director.
The film went into production in late September 1973 and in an October issue of Variety magazine, Sam Peckinpah was quoted as saying, "For me, Hollywood no longer exists. It's past history. I've decided to stay in Mexico because I believe I can make my pictures with greater freedom from here". This upset the Motion Picture and Television Unions and they openly censured the director for his statement at their National Conference in Detroit. They also threatened Alfredo Garcia with union boycotts upon its release, labeling it a "runaway" production. In his defense, Peckinpah claimed that he was misquoted. Before the film was to be released, the unions relented on their boycott threat.
According to Gordon T. Dawson, principal photography was marked with an overwhelming sense of melancholy and defeat, perhaps engendered by Sam Peckinpah's use of cocaine (introduced to him by Oates). The screenwriter (a veteran of several Peckinpah films) was so unnerved by the shift in Peckinpah's mental state and mercurial behavior that he resolved never to work with him again.
The photograph of Alfredo Garcia (that Robert Webber and Gig Young show around town, and then to Bennie) is actually a photo of Warren Oates made to look Spanish.
"Bennie: There ain't nothing sacred about a hole in the ground or the man that's in it. Or you. Or me."
"Bennie: [as he keeps shooting a man he has already killed] Why? Because it feels so goddamn good!"
