Before Rambo... Before Oliver North...
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.
DramaHistoryWarsmall towncannonswordmexican standoffhorsegorebiographytycoonbased on true storynicaraguagunfightbattle
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Character
Grave, plot-driven, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Ed HarrisWilliam Walker
- Richard MasurEphraim Squier
- René AuberjonoisMaj. Siegfried Hennington
- Keith SzarabajkaTimothy Crocker
- Sy RichardsonCaptain Hornsby
- Xander BerkeleyByron Cole
- John DiehlStebbins
- Peter BoyleCornelius Vanderbilt
- Marlee MatlinEllen Martin
- Alfonso ArauRaousset
Crew
- Alex CoxDirector
- Rudy WurlitzerWriter
- David BridgesDirector of Photography
- Joe StrummerOriginal Music Composer
- Alex CoxEditor
- Carlos PuenteEditor
- Angel Flores MariniProducer
- Lorenzo O'BrienProducer
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