Trivia / Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

• Actor-Inspired Element: It was the idea of Robert Webber (Sappensly) for Sappensly and Quill to be Ambiguously Gay.
• Banned in China: The film was banned in Germany and Argentina.
• Creator Breakdown: According to co-writer Gordon T. Dawson, Sam Peckinpah was listless and diffident during filming, plagued by woman troubles at home and over-medicated by quack doctors. Principal photography was marked with an overwhelming sense of melancholy and defeat, perhaps engendered by Peckinpah's use of cocaine (introduced to him by Warren Oates). The screenwriter (a veteran of several Peckinpah films) was so unnerved by the shift in Peckinpah's mental state and mercurial behavior that he resolved never to work with him again. According to Kris Kristofferson, Peckinpah not only printed the improv but rewrote the scene to follow because of it.
• Referenced by...:
  • The film club game on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue will almost always include a pun on this film's title.
  • The Peanuts fan film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is a parody of this film that runs off of the dissonance between the wholesome image of the comic strip and the heavy sex and violence that characterizes Sam Peckinpah's work.
• Throw It In!: Isela Vega improvised the scene where she continues prodding Warren Oates about proposing. She kept doing it even after Sam Peckinpah yelled "Cut".
• What Could Have Been:
  • James Coburn and Peter Falk passed on the role of Bennie.
  • The original script called for Bennie to get away alive, with both the money and head. During shooting, Sam Peckinpah decided that Bennie had to die, and rewrote it as such.
  • Harry Dean Stanton nearly replaced Kris Kristofferson.

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