Fifty years slips past when you’re not even looking. For example, how long ago was it that Warren Oates in Cockfighter hit the silver screen?
Fifty years? Correct you are.
Based on the novel by Charles Willeford. The blurbage for a 7p.m. showing in the Four Star Theater on Clement is pretty good, although I don’t notice them mentioning that Willeford himself acts in the movie. He plays the judge.
Got a quick note from Betsy Willeford telling me about it: “Kier-la Janisse wrote a book about the book and movie, titled Cockfight: A Fable of Failure — well researched, insightful and beautifully illustrated.
“In case you know anybody interested in going, she will be in San Francisco August 30 at the Four Star Theater and they will be playing the movie.”
One of the few movies based on Willeford.
Close to topflight Warren Oates — I mean, it’s no Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, but it’s in there. Oates drove up from Mexico to shoot Cockfighter immediately after they wrapped Garcia.
