Movie
Walker
1987R1h 35m6.4 / 10
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.
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Synopsis
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.
Cast, crew and production details
About Walker
Cast
Ed HarrisWilliam Walker
Richard MasurEphraim Squier
René AuberjonoisMaj. Siegfried Hennington
Keith SzarabajkaTimothy Crocker
Sy RichardsonCaptain Hornsby
Xander BerkeleyByron Cole
John DiehlStebbins
Peter BoyleCornelius VanderbiltCredits
- Directed by
- Alex Cox
- Written by
- Rudy Wurlitzer
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $5.8M
- Box office
- $257K
Production
- IncineSpain
- Northern
- Walker Films Limited
Universal PicturesUnited States
Themes
19th centuryanachronismbased on true storybattlebiographycannoncentral americagoregunfighthorsemexican standoffnicaraguasmall townsword
