Walker

Dec 4, 1987

1h 35m

★ 6.4

Before Rambo... Before Oliver North...

Overview

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Genres

Drama

History

Western

Production Companies

Incine

Northern

Walker Films Limited

Universal Pictures

Walker Trailers

Cast

William Walker

Ed Harris

Ephraim Squier

Richard Masur

Maj. Siegfried Hennington

René Auberjonois

Timothy Crocker

Keith Szarabajka

Captain Hornsby

Sy Richardson

Byron Cole

Xander Berkeley

Stebbins

John Diehl

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Peter Boyle

Ellen Martin

Marlee Matlin

Raousset

Alfonso Arau

Munoz

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Norvell Walker

Gerrit Graham

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