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| Extreme Prejudice | |
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| Directed by | Walter Hill |
| Screenplay by | Deric Washburn Harry Kleiner |
| Story by | John Milius Fred Rexer |
| Produced by | Buzz Feitshans Mario Kassar |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Freeman A. Davies David Holden Billy Weber |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Tri-Star Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22 million[1] |
| Box office | $11.3 million[2] |
Extreme Prejudice is a 1987 American neo-Western action thriller film[3] directed by Walter Hill, from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Deric Washburn, from a story by John Milius and Fred Rexer. It stars Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe, with a supporting cast including Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, and Clancy Brown.
Set in South Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, the film's plot centers on the conflict between two former friends-turned-rivals, one a Texas Ranger (Nolte) and one a drug trafficker (Boothe), who both become embroiled in a political conspiracy involving a black ops military unit. The film was released by Tri-Star Pictures on April 24, 1987. It received a positive critical response, but was not a financial success.[4]
Extreme Prejudice is an homage, of sorts, to The Wild Bunch, a western directed by Sam Peckinpah, with whom Hill worked on The Getaway. Both films end with a massive gunfight in a Mexican border town. The title originates from "terminate with extreme prejudice", a phrase popularized by Apocalypse Now, also written by Milius.
- ^ Modderno, Craig (September 14, 1986). "EXTREME CONFUSION". Los Angeles Times. p. T22 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Box office figures for Walter Hill films in France at Box Office Story
- ^ "Extreme Prejudice". AllMovie. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
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