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Cockfighter

Screening on Film
Directed by Monte Hellman.
With Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton.
US, 1974, 35mm, color, 83 min.

Hellman's sad and rollicking portrait of stubborn male pride stars Warren Oates in one of his iconic world weary performances as a man who has staked his dignity, reputation and power of speech on regaining the title of champion cockfighter. Working with a wonderful script by cult author Charles Willerford, who adapted his own eponymous novel and appears in a spirited minor role, and lustrous cinematography by Nestor Almederos, Hellman offers a richly authentic vision of the South and of cockfighting subculture that compares to the far West world of street racing captured so memorably in Two-Lane Blacktop. – HG

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