83 minutes — R, 35mm, Monte Hellman, United States, 1974
Saturday Night Sinema presents an example of vintage Grindhouse-era chicken-sploitation as Warren Oates (in a nearly wordless performance) loses everything on a rooster-fight gone wrong, and then slowly builds himself back up, with the Cockfighting Championships as his only goal in life. (Also released under the less smirk-inducing title Born to Kill).
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