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Cockfighter
Directed by
Monte Hellman
R
1974
83m
Drama
6.9
100%
82%
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In the Deep South, a trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.
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Cast of Cockfighter
Warren Oates
Frank Mansfield
Richard B. Shull
Omar Baradansky
Harry Dean Stanton
Jack Burke
Ed Begley Jr.
Tom Peeples
Laurie Bird
Dody White Burke
Troy Donahue
Randall Mansfield
Warren Finnerty
Sanders
Robert Earl Jones
Buford
Patricia Pearcy
Mary Elizabeth
Millie Perkins
Frances Mansfield
Steve Railsback
Junior
Tom Spratley
Mister Peeples
Charles Willeford
Ed Middleton
Pete Munro
Packard
Kermit Echols
Fred Reed
Ed Smith
Whipple
Jimmy Williams
Buddy Waggoner
John Trotter
Hansen
Lois Zeitlin
Lucille
Joe Bentley
Peach Owen
A.B. Greeson
Pete Chocolate
Bob Hannah
Deputy sheriff
Sara Rickman
Martha Middleton
Meg Brush
Mary Elizabeth's mother
Donnie Fritts
Gangleader - old man mask
Bobby Dunn
Gambler
Kim Bernard
Gambler
Ank Carleton
Captain Mack
Billy Abbott
Referee
Dickey Betts
Cigarette mask (uncredited)
Steven Gaydos
Nixon mask (uncredited)
Oliver Coleman
Senator Foxhall
Cockfighter Ratings & Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
The movie works once again because of Hellman's fascination with the subculture and its various characters, and because of Oates' brilliant performance, registering his excitement and loss solely with his eyes.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
This is a blood and guts art film with unforgettable intensity and stark scenes that few films have managed to capture with such fervor.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Hellman 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.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
...if you can stomach the poultry carnage and bleak gender dynamics (Frank's voiceover-narration sendoff to discarded girlfriend Laurie Bird is particularly nasty), it's a singular slice of vintage Americana...
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