Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton
Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion rooster in a casual hotel room ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005
Stats: 61 reviews
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That's the hell of a good movie. Oates is simply perfect. As if Jean Rouch had left Africa and turned his attention to Louisiana. It puts the "vérité" in "cinéma vérité". It is a funky flix about the redest of rednecks.
It is violent (compared to a sin...( read more)
The second film I've seen by Hellman, and the second one that is a comment on a popular genre of the time.
This one is is about sport films. The narrative is set up like alot of sport films, and what's brilliant is that on one level plays out like a brilliantly directed one. Of...( read more)
If you're gonna do some cockfighting it's best to do it in a hotel room; those roosters just love the low grade carpet on their claws.
So everyone kicked up a storm about all the animal killing in Cannibal Holocaust but why not for this movie which features real cockfighting and lots of dead chickens? But more importantly Warren Oates is a great character study.
It's like this thing was genetically designed tom appeal specifically to me. Warren Oates is outstanding. The hundreds of chickens killed during filming is a small price to pay for such awesomeness.
A slimmed down version of Deliverance, but instead of someone sodomizing Ned Beatty they watch a bunch of chickens kill each other. Yee-haw!
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