Highway Patrolman

Starring: Roberto Sosa, Vanessa Bauche Director: Alex Cox Original UK Premiere: 1992 Dvd Release: 6th June, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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DVD Extras: An audio commentary by Alex Cox & his collaborator on the film, writer/producer Lorenzo O'Brien, details the precarious ins & outs of shooting on location in Mexico & the series of real life dramas that trailed their wake. The feature appears in widescreen.

Diminutive Highway Patrolman, Pedro Rojas is small in stature but high on morals. While his Mexican traffic cop compadres are taking bribes left, right & centre he prefers the straight-and-narrow route to law & order. But life on the highway is not as clear-cut as Pedro would like to believe & he starts to stray off course. After stopping Griselda Marcos for a minor infraction, he accepts her offer of breakfast at the family home & is before he knows it is betrothed with a child on the way. After taking a kickback from a livestock carrier without the correct health & safety permits, Pedro drinks his guilt away in a border bar & ends up in the arms of Maribel , a beautiful prostitute strung-out on heroin. In the act of arresting two drunk drivers on a deserted road, Pedro is shot in the leg & left with a permanent limp. Soon after, when his fellow cop & close friend Anibal Morales is blasted to death by heavily armed drug traffickers, Pedro decides to walk tall & take the cartel on himself. Based on the experiences of a real highway patrolman & shot in a string of northern Mexican border towns, Alex Coxs Spanish-language road movie is flawlessly directed. Cinematographer Manuel Garzons roaming camera floats like a mirage through the desert landscape, tracking the every move of Sozas scrawny but street tough cop.

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