Extreme Prejudice is an American action film originally released in 1987.
The film was directed by Walter Hill; it was written by John Milius, Fred Rexer and Deric Washburn (the latter collaborated with Michael Cimino on Silent Running and The Deer Hunter). Extreme Prejudice stars Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe as two former friends on opposing sides of the law forced to confrontation. The film is an homage, of sorts, to The Wild Bunch, a western d...
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Extreme Prejudice is an American action film originally released in 1987.
The film was directed by Walter Hill; it was written by John Milius, Fred Rexer and Deric Washburn (the latter collaborated with Michael Cimino on Silent Running and The Deer Hunter). Extreme Prejudice stars Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe as two former friends on opposing sides of the law forced to confrontation. The film is an homage, of sorts, to The Wild Bunch, a western directed by Sam Peckinpah and with whom Hill worked on The Getaway (1972 film). Both films end with a massive gun fight in a Mexican border town.
The title originates from "terminate with extreme prejudice", a phrase popularized by the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, also written by John Milius.
The character of Jack Benteen was loosely based on Joaquin Jackson, now a retired Texas Ranger. Nolte spent three weeks with Jackson learning the day to day activities of a Ranger. Nolte took what he learned and incorporated it into his character; the...
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