Cockfighter
Cockfighter

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- 69/100 based on 2,519 votes
  • Released: 1974
  • Runtime: 83 mins
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  • Studio: Artists Entertainment Complex
  • Genres: Drama

Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion rooster in a casual hotel room cockfight, he swore never to speak again until he's won that award... He makes a bet with old crony Jack to be settled at the upcoming meet. Frank puts his car and his trailer on the line; he loses. Jack gets the trailer, and Frank's part-time girlfriend who goes with it. Frank's... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Cockfighter:

Warren Oates
Richard B. Shull
Harry Dean Stanton
Ed Begley Jr.
Laurie Bird
Troy Donahue

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Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion rooster in a casual hotel room cockfight, he swore never to speak again until he's won that award... He makes a bet with old crony Jack to be settled at the upcoming meet. Frank puts his car and his trailer on the line; he loses. Jack gets the trailer, and Frank's part-time girlfriend who goes with it. Frank's long-time girlfriend Mary Elizabeth wants him to get serious and settle down. But Frank has to raise some money for a new cock - $500 - then he can form a partnership with fellow cocksman Omar Baradansky and make another try for that medal...

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San Francisco Examiner - 8/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonA great film with a masterful silent performance by Warren Oates.
New Yorker - 8/10 by Richard BrodyHellman embraces, with visual nuance, a world of back roads and forests, grim motels and ramshackle arenas, and he approaches the intricacies of the subculture ... with a cool Hemingwayesque moralism.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzThis is a blood and guts art film with unforgettable intensity and stark scenes that few films have managed to capture with such fervor.
User Review - 10/10 by Christian PWarren Oates. Harry Dean Stanton. Monte Hellman. 'Nuff said.
User Review - 10/10 by Tristan FWatching this again, I think it's as amazing as Two-Lane Blacktop. It's another brilliant, despairing, and eccentric road film about male repression and obsession. It has one of Warren Oates's best performances. A truly remarkable, little seen film.
User Review - 10/10 by Kevin MHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ha!!! That's the hell of a good movie. Oates is simply perfect. As if Jean Rouch had left Africa and turned his attention to Louisiana. It puts the "vérité" in "cinéma vérité". It is a funky flix about the redest of rednecks. It is violent (compared to a single cockfight the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan look like the adventures of Winnie the Poo). It is also wonderful of dignity.The decadence and the fragility and cheer joy of all the characters made me think of this expression invented to describe another film: Texistentialism, although the Cockfighter is set in Louisiana, you find that kind of happy goes kind of lucky Southern attitude. Need to see it again soon.
User Review - 10/10 by J Kclassic which spawned the now ubiquitous "mute cockfighter" archetype
User Review - 10/10 by Brandon MWhen you've got Warren Oates in a film, you already know it's gonna be badass. Throw Monte Hellman, Harry Dean Stanton and cockfighting into the mix and you've got yourself a regular badass cake. Eat it. Eat your cake of badassery.
User Review - 10/10 by Isaac JIt's like this thing was genetically designed tom appeal specifically to me. Warren Oates is outstanding. The hundreds of chickens killed during filming is a small price to pay for such awesomeness.
User Review - 10/10 by Jan DBased on Charles Willeford's 1962 novel of the same name. "Cockfighter" is Warren Oates and Monte Hellman's finest collaboration. Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is obsessed with cockfigthing. He has taken a vow of silence until he wins the 'Cockfighter of the Year' medal and regains his lost reputation. The reason for his silence is simple, Frank used to be a drunk and a loudmouth who lost everything he owned (including his girlfriend) to his gambling pal Jack Burke (Harry Dean Stanton). This movie isn't for the faint of heart, the cockfighting scenes are mostly real and many animal lovers won't be able to stomach it. For those of us who do though, this is an amazing movie. Warren Oates is spectacular in it, and it's amazing how much authenticity and depth he brings to the role without speaking much at all. This is a strangely beautiful film and a treasure chest for lovers of 70s cinema and Warren Oates. One of my personal favorites!

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