For the racehorse, see Cockfighter (horse). For people who pit roosters against each other in blood sport, see Cockfight.
Cockfighter
US film poster
Directed by
Monte Hellman
Screenplay by
Charles Willeford
Based on
Cockfighter by Charles Willeford
Produced by
Roger Corman
Starring
Warren Oates
Richard B. Shull
Harry Dean Stanton
Patricia Pearcy
Millie Perkins
Cinematography
Néstor Almendros
Edited by
Lewis Teague
Music by
Michael Franks
Production company
Artists Entertainment Complex
Distributed by
New World Pictures
Release date
July 30, 1974 (1974-07-30) (Roswell, Georgia)
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Running time
83 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$400,000[1]
Cockfighter (also known as Born to Kill, Gamblin' Man and Wild Drifter) is a 1974 drama film by director Monte Hellman, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton and featuring Laurie Bird and Ed Begley, Jr. The screenplay is based on the 1962 novel of the same title by Charles Willeford.[1]
^ abc"Detail view of Movies page: Cockfighter". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
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Cockfighting is a blood sport involving domesticated roosters as the combatants. The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock...
Cockfighting (Seval Sandai in Tamil, Kodi Pandem in Telugu) in India primarily takes place in January, coinciding with Makara Sankranti. The practice is...
Mills", Bird appeared in just three films: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), and a small role as girlfriend to Paul Simon's character in the...
less successful critically, although it too has its admirers, as do Cockfighter (1974) (aka Born to Kill) and Iguana (1988). In 1989, he directed the...
raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population...
fighting"; it was often referred to derisively in the United States as "human cockfighting". Bateman, Oliver Lee (July 6, 2018). "The Early Years of MMA Were a...
Okinawa. Stanton appeared in indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Escape from New York, Repo Man) as well as mainstream Hollywood productions...
Connecticut and Kentucky before making her film debut in Monte Hellman's Cockfighter (1974). She had supporting parts in The Goodbye Girl (1977) and in several...
until the titular character breaks the hermit's foot. The 1974 film, Cockfighter, a man who trains fighting roosters vows to remain silent until one of...
bloodshed. Common examples of the former include combat sports such as cockfighting and dog fighting, and some forms of hunting and fishing. Activities characterized...
fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy. Charles...
belongings to feed his murdered son's gamecock. Charles Willeford's Cockfighter (1962) gives a detailed account of the protagonist's life as a 'cocker'...
proposition to ban cockfighting, arguing that a ban could lead to efforts to restrict the use of hunting dogs, which opponents of cockfighting called a distraction...
August 10, 2017, retrieved February 9, 2023 Dundes, Alan, ed. (1994). The Cockfight: A Casebook. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 136–137...
The Cockfighting Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6. & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This act made it a criminal offence to...
by Peter Fonda, The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Kid Blue (1973) and Cockfighter (1974). Finnerty died in 1974 in New York City from a heart attack at...
the sport.[not verified in body] Well-known illegal sports, such as cockfighting and dogfighting, are barred on the basis of animal abuse. Illegal sports...
permanently in captivity. Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but people soon realised the...
"Biboy" Enriquez is a Filipino hotelier and a two-time world champion cockfighter. He is the founder of beauty contests such as Miss Asia Pacific International...
Proof of vaccination has been mandated to visit Phuket and other places. Cockfighting is illegal in Phuket, but Kamala Beach has become the center for breeding...