Extreme Prejudice (film)
1987 American film by Walter Hill / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Extreme Prejudice is a 1987 American neo-Western action thriller film[3] directed by Walter Hill, from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Deric Washburn, from a story by John Milius and Fred Rexer. It stars Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe, with a supporting cast including Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown.
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Directed by | Walter Hill |
Screenplay by | Deric Washburn Harry Kleiner |
Story by | John Milius Fred Rexer |
Produced by | Buzz Feitshans Mario Kassar |
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Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
Edited by | Freeman A. Davies David Holden Billy Weber |
Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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Distributed by | Tri-Star Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $22 million[1] |
Box office | $11.3 million[2] |
Set in South Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the film's plot centers on the conflict between two former friends-turned-rivals, one a Texas Ranger (Nolte) and one a drug trafficker (Boothe), who both become embroiled in a political conspiracy involving a black ops military unit. The film was released by Tri-Star Pictures on April 24, 1987. It received a positive critical response, but was not a financial success.[4]
Extreme Prejudice is an homage, of sorts, to The Wild Bunch, a western directed by Sam Peckinpah, with whom Hill worked on The Getaway. Both films end with a massive gunfight in a Mexican border town. The title originates from "terminate with extreme prejudice", a phrase popularized by Apocalypse Now, also written by Milius.