Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades

How a Revenge Film was Buried for Decades

  • Movie
  • 2026
  • Documentary

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).

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Director
Eric Zaldivar
Starring
Gary Conway, Stratton Leopold, Paul Schrader, David Morrell

Cast

  • Gary Conway

    Gary Conway

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  • Stratton Leopold

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  • Paul Schrader

    Paul Schrader

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  • David Morrell

    David Morrell

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  • Steve Railsback

    Steve Railsback

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  • Elliott Street

    Elliott Street

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  • Haskell V. Anderson III

    Haskell V. Anderson III

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  • Steve Cattani

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  • Michael Dante

    Michael Dante

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  • Topo Swope

    Topo Swope

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