Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
- small town
- cannon
- sword
- mexican standoff
- horse
- gore
- biography
- tycoon
- based on true story
- nicaragua
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ed Harris
William Walker
Richard Masur
Ephraim Squier
René Auberjonois
Maj. Siegfried Hennington
Keith Szarabajka
Timothy Crocker
- Sy Richardson — Captain Hornsby
- Xander Berkeley — Byron Cole
- John Diehl — Stebbins
- Peter Boyle — Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Marlee Matlin — Ellen Martin
- Alfonso Arau — Raousset
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. — Munoz
- Gerrit Graham — Norvell Walker
- William O'Leary — James Walker
- Blanca Guerra — Yrena
- Miguel Sandoval — Parker French
- Directed
- Alex Cox
- Written
- Rudy Wurlitzer
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 90 ratings
- Studio
- Incine, Northern, Walker Films Limited, Universal Pictures
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