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A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Gary Carlos Cervantes
- Hector
- (as Carlos Cervantes)
Tom Lister Jr.
- Monday
- (as Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.)
Marco Rodríguez
- Deputy Cortez
- (as Marco Rodriguez)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe scene in which Powers Boothe picks up a scorpion then crushes it with his bare hand was done in one take.
- GoofsA microphone is visible in bar scene at the beginning (a few minutes from the start).
- Quotes
Sheriff Hank Pearson: Hell, Jack... the only thing worse than a politician is a child molester.
- Alternate versionsWest German theatrical version was cut to secure a "Not under 16" rating. The VHS release by Marketing Film is cut even more to retain that rating. Only in 2002 the uncut version was released on DVD by Kinowelt.
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"Right way's the hardest, wrong way's the easiest."
One of Walter Hill's many overlooked and undervalued films, Extreme Prejudice is a modern day western, set squarely on the US/Mexican border.
For an action film, it's unusually structured, with two separate strands vying for prominence. On the one hand we have Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte, looking particularly sharp), versus childhood friend, now drug lord Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), battling over both the drug trade and Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso), a Mexican singer who loves them both. But what is a supposedly deceased US army unit doing in town? These guys are on a mission, and while they might not like their orders, they'll carry them out to the best of their ability. But what their mission is, they or us are never to sure of.
The film is filled with to the brim with fine character actors, chewing up and spitting out the tough-guy dialogue with relish. Everyone is on fine form though Rip Torn, as Benteen's predecessor and Clancy Brown, as the unit's second-in-command are of particular note.
Well worth a look if you ever get the chance.
For an action film, it's unusually structured, with two separate strands vying for prominence. On the one hand we have Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte, looking particularly sharp), versus childhood friend, now drug lord Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), battling over both the drug trade and Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso), a Mexican singer who loves them both. But what is a supposedly deceased US army unit doing in town? These guys are on a mission, and while they might not like their orders, they'll carry them out to the best of their ability. But what their mission is, they or us are never to sure of.
The film is filled with to the brim with fine character actors, chewing up and spitting out the tough-guy dialogue with relish. Everyone is on fine form though Rip Torn, as Benteen's predecessor and Clancy Brown, as the unit's second-in-command are of particular note.
Well worth a look if you ever get the chance.
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- Gareth_Hacking
- Sep 30, 2007
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Box office
- Budget
- $22,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,307,844
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,498,957
- Apr 26, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $11,307,844
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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