There was a good article discussing the career of cult director Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight To Hell) in the Guardian worth noting:
As a film-maker, of course, Cox is rather hamstrung by the fact that his first two films - Repo Man and Sid & Nancy - remain his most successful and most enduring. They are also official "punk" films, and like his pals the Clash, Cox found the lure of mid-80s revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, Guatemala et al impossible to resist. The 1987 film Walker was his Sandanista!, a real triple-album of a movie, starring Ed Harris as US freebooter William Walker, who invaded Nicaragua in the 1850s and set himself up as president - before being executed by firing squad in Honduras in 1860.
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