Best Served Cold
How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades
A feature length cinema documentary on how THE FARMER (1977) became the most-requested cult film of the new millennium, and it's a crazy tale that involves an actor incarcerated for manslaughter, serious on-set injuries, banana-man costumes- as well as surprising links to Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese. The film also broadens its scope to explore the overlooked, eclectic and often ultra-violent sub-genre THE FARMER belongs to - The Returning Veteran film. A film type that hit its stride in the 1970's with hard hitting character studies such as WELCOME HOME, SOLDIERS BOYS (1971), THE NO MERCY MAN (1973) and ROLLING THUNDER (1977).
- Year : 1970
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
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- Keyword : behind the scenes, documentary, the farmer
- Director : Eric Zaldivar
- Cast : Gary Conway, Stratton Leopold, Paul Schrader, David Morrell, Steve Railsback, Elliott Street
