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Extreme Prejudice

- An army of forgotten heroes, all officially dead. They live for combat. Now they've met the wrong man.

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Release Date : 1987-04-24

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : TriStar PicturesCarolco Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Jack Benteen

Original Name : Nick Nolte

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cash Bailey

Original Name : Powers Boothe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maj. Paul Hackett

Original Name : Michael Ironside

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sarita Cisneros

Original Name : María Conchita Alonso

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sheriff Hank Pearson

Original Name : Rip Torn

Gender : Male

Character Name : MSgt. Larry McRose

Original Name : Clancy Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Buck Atwater

Original Name : William Forsythe

Gender : Male

Character Name : SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker

Original Name : Matt Mulhern

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Charles Biddle

Original Name : Larry B. Scott

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Luther Fry

Original Name : Dan Tullis Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Merv

Original Name : John Dennis Johnston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lupo

Original Name : Luis Contreras

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hector

Original Name : Gary Carlos Cervantes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Monday

Original Name : Tommy Lister Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy Cortez

Original Name : Marco Rodríguez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy Purvis

Original Name : James Lashly

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clarence King

Original Name : Tony Frank

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chub Luke

Original Name : Mickey Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : T.C. Luke

Original Name : Kent Lipham

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pearly Grips

Original Name : Sam Gauny

Gender : Male

Character Name : Arturo

Original Name : Rick Garcia

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man with Chub

Original Name : Richard L. Duran

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jesus

Original Name : Larry Duran

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Mexican Man

Original Name : Jimmy Ortega

Gender : Male

Character Name : Redneck in Bank

Original Name : Ken Medlock

Gender : Male

Character Name : Employment Office Clerk

Original Name : Lin Shaye

Gender : Female

Character Name : Girl with Biddle

Original Name : Christina Garcia

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rincon Norte Bartender

Original Name : Gil Reyes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Andy

Original Name : Humberto de la Torre

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy #1

Original Name : Fred Eisenlohr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy #2

Original Name : Anthony Galvan III

Gender : Male

Character Name : Donna Lee

Original Name : Erin Bowden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jalisco Bartender

Original Name : Frank Lugo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man in Employment Office

Original Name : Anthony Lattanzio

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman in Airport

Original Name : Michelle Rosen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chicken Champ Kid

Original Name : Charles Lewis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ambush Shooter (uncredited)

Original Name : Allan Graf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bank Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Helen Kelly

Gender : Female

Character Name : Scarza (uncredited)

Original Name : Thomas Rosales Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman in Bank (uncredited)

Original Name : Karly Rothenberg

Gender : Female

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Extreme Prejudice (1987) The Zombie Unit. Extreme Prejudice is directed by Walter Hill and collectively written by John Milius, Fred Rexer, Deric Washburn and Harry Kleiner. It stars Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe and Matt Mulhern. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Matthew F. Leonetti. Well it’s a good day for a killing. Walter Hill homages and parodies the splinter of action cinema that encompasses the grizzled law enforcer tracking the bad guy, who in this case, was once a friend. That’s the basic set up for Hill’s brooding and bloody Extreme Prejudice. Action takes place down on the US/Mexico border, Ranger Jack Benteen (Nolte) is hunting his one time pal - and the man he shares his woman’s love with – Cash Bailey (Boothe), who has taken up drug smuggling as his employment of choice. Complicating matters is that there is a gang of ex-forces specialists in the town ready to raid the bank for some funds and documents to nail Bailey. Loyalties are tested, twists, turns and bloody shocks do follow. Much of the film’s strength is gained from the casting, it’s a roll call of macho performers who combined make up a CV with enough beef to feed the third world. Even Alonso as the sole female of note fits the requisite toughness exam (she would do The Running Man this same year and go on to star in Predator 2). Much of the narrative involves brooding and tough talk, a slow burn approach from Hill who adds some meat to the bones of the main characters. Photography is pleasing, with actual locations shimmering on the screen, and Goldsmith’s score is a pulser that is a fore runner to his score for Total Recall 3 years later. At times it’s offbeat, at others it’s gripping in its sweaty intensity, and then there is the balletic violence which Hill has proven himself to be an astute purveyor of, crowned here by his homage to Peckinpah’s glorious finale in The Wild Bunch. Lean and tough with bodies and butchness everywhere. 7.5/10