Nick Nolte

Powers Boothe

Michael Ironside

María Conchita Alonso

Rip Torn

Clancy Brown

William Forsythe

Matt Mulhern

Larry B. Scott

Dan Tullis Jr.

John Dennis Johnston

Luis Contreras

Gary Carlos Cervantes

Tommy Lister Jr.

Marco Rodríguez

James Lashly

Tony Frank

Mickey Jones

Kent Lipham

Sam Gauny

Rick Garcia

Richard L. Duran

Larry Duran

Jimmy Ortega

Ken Medlock

Lin Shaye

Christina Garcia

Gil Reyes

Humberto de la Torre

Fred Eisenlohr

Anthony Galvan III

Erin Bowden

Frank Lugo

Anthony Lattanzio

Michelle Rosen

Charles Lewis

Allan Graf

Helen Kelly

Thomas Rosales Jr.

Karly Rothenberg

Walter Hill

Carl Fischer

Pat Blymyer

Luca Kouimelis

Michael St. Hilaire

John J. Linder

Richard Bryce Goodman

Huw Davies

Dirk Petersmann

Airick Kredell

Mark Averill

Bennie E. Dobbins

Michael D. O'Shea

Dagmar Loesch

Mary F. Galloway

Craig Edgar

Susie Johnson

Michael Germain

Evelyn Dutton

Gregg Landaker

Robert W. Glass Jr.

Johnny Lattanzio

Jeff Passanante

Fred J. Brown

Michele Sharp

Lauren Palmer

Donah Bassett

Bruce McBroom

Terry Haggar

Dan Moore

Gary Ritchie

Chriss Strauss

Margie O'Malley

Rick Young

Teri E. Dorman

Jay Wilkinson

Michael Minkler

Michelle Pleis

Deric Washburn

Fred Rexer

Buzz Feitshans

Matthew F. Leonetti

Harry Kleiner

Jerry Goldsmith

John Milius

Sherry Caudle

Edmond Wright

Amy Kastens

Johnny London Jr.

Earl Linder

John R. Leonetti

Brian Callahan

JoAnn May-Pavey

Douglas E. Beal

Beverli Eagan

Robert LaBonge

Steve McLean

Bob Fillis

Joe McKinney

David Cadiente

Jeff O'Haco

Stanley Nye

Jon Carpenter

Lloyd Barcroft

Alain Poilvez

Steven Rosenblum

George P. Wilbur

Charles Bella

Barry K. Thomas

Terry Collis

Robert D. Simon

Vic Cuccia

Wayne Montanio

Jerry Wills

Donn Aron

Claudia Finkle

Ry Cooder

Michael D. Weldon

Edouard F. Henriques III

Donna Lindemann

Robert Nichols II

James F. La Croix

Yoko Seto

Marian Green

Mario Kassar

Albert Heschong

Billy Weber

Judith Holstra

Andrew G. Vajna

Freeman A. Davies

Mae Woods

David Holden

Joseph C. Nemec III

Ernie Bishop

Regina Gruss

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Extreme Prejudice

TriStar Pictures

Carolco Pictures

United States of America

Extreme Prejudice (1987)

The Zombie Unit.

Extreme Prejudice is directed by Walter Hill and collectively written by John Milius, Fred Rexer, Deric Washburn and Harry Kleiner. It stars Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe and Matt Mulhern. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti.

Well it’s a good day for a killing.

Walter Hill homages and parodies the splinter of action cinema that encompasses the grizzled law enforcer tracking the bad guy, who in this case, was once a friend. That’s the basic set up for Hill’s brooding and bloody Extreme Prejudice. Action takes place down on the US/Mexico border, Ranger Jack Benteen (Nolte) is hunting his one time pal - and the man he shares his woman’s love with – Cash Bailey (Boothe), who has taken up drug smuggling as his employment of choice. Complicating matters is that there is a gang of ex-forces specialists in the town ready to raid the bank for some funds and documents to nail Bailey. Loyalties are tested, twists, turns and bloody shocks do follow.

Much of the film’s strength is gained from the casting, it’s a roll call of macho performers who combined make up a CV with enough beef to feed the third world. Even Alonso as the sole female of note fits the requisite toughness exam (she would do The Running Man this same year and go on to star in Predator 2). Much of the narrative involves brooding and tough talk, a slow burn approach from Hill who adds some meat to the bones of the main characters. Photography is pleasing, with actual locations shimmering on the screen, and Goldsmith’s score is a pulser that is a fore runner to his score for Total Recall 3 years later.

At times it’s offbeat, at others it’s gripping in its sweaty intensity, and then there is the balletic violence which Hill has proven himself to be an astute purveyor of, crowned here by his homage to Peckinpah’s glorious finale in The Wild Bunch.

Lean and tough with bodies and butchness everywhere. 7.5/10

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