Walker

Walker

6.5IMDb Score
Released:1987-12-04
Duration:95 min
Director:Alex Cox
Actors:Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Sy Richardson
Production:Incine, Northern, Walker Films Limited, Universal Pictures

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.

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