Walker (DVD, 2008)
Product Details
Overview -
Walker
Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Alex Cox; Audio commentary with Cox and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer; Dispatches form Nicaragua, an original documentary, about the filming of Walker in Nicaragua; On moviemaking and the revolution, reminiscences twenty years later from an extra on the film; The immortals, behind-the-scenes photos; Cox on Walker's reviews; Trailer
Scene Index
Disc #1 -- Walker
1. Act of God [6:10]
2. A Promise [4:50]
3. Commodore Vanderbilt's Proposal [7:55]
4. "Three Cheers for Democracy!" [6:34]
5. March for Rivas [4:58]
6. First Impressions [6:54]
7. "Now Is the Hour of My Destiny" [3:24]
8. Granada [2:40]
9. The Proper Position [5:04]
10. Treason [10:32]
11. President Walker [8:44]
12. Slavery [5:59]
13. To the Ground [8:04]
14. "We'll Be Back" [5:36]
15. "No One Will Remember Walker" [:54]
16. End Credits/Color Bars [6:35]
Editorial Reviews
Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and eventually a Nicaraguan dictator. When his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) dies of cholera (but not before she utilizes sign language to tell Walker "To Hell with Manifest Destiny"), Walker is backed by multi-millionaire banker Cornelius Vanderbilt (Peter Boyle) to lead a band of mercenaries to Nicaragua in 1855 to make the country safe for Vanderbilt's steamships. When Walker subdues the Nicaraguan opposition, he sets himself up as president and rules the country with unfeeling repression. Finally the Nicaraguans rise up against him, figuring out that "the mad gringo is ripping us off." ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi All Movie Guide