Cockfighter

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Poe R May 23, 2017 Warren Oates stars as a champion cockfighter who lost out on winning a championship medal because he couldn't keep his mouth shut. He vows not to speak again until he wins the medal. This flick is well-known as one of the only films that Roger Corman produced that failed to make any money. Although it's really a great film, you can see why it didn't exactly set the exploitation circuit on fire. The only real exploitation angle that the film has going is cockfighting ... and there's a lot of it and it's real. Corman seems to have dropped his sure fire formula of including some violence, nudity or some other angle to appeal to the punters. What you do get here is a really classy bit of American existentialism, the kind that Hellman excels at, with a very strong wordless lead from Oates, and able supporting turns from Harry Dean Stanton, Steve Railsback and a very young Ed Begley, Jr. If you can stomach lots of birds trying to kill each other and succeeding quite often, it's a real gem. See more

Abraham S Apr 13, 2017 An existential art house flick about a mute cockfighter. Ah, the underground 70's.

Ron S Mar 23, 2017 This was a film that I was happy to finally cross of the list, as it's something from the year in which I was born and also a film I've heard a lot about over the years. Warren Oates plays a largely silent role after taking a vow of silence after becoming too boastful and proud and being brought low when his bird loses. We watch him train a new bird and the various oddballs he encounters while working this circuit of cockfighting, all of which is done with real roosters, so beware if you're too much of an animal lover, as it's pretty rough going in several spots. Well worth a look if you can deal with the realities of it, but understandably a pass if you can't. See more

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