THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Western
• Plot: Forced to run from the Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Producer-star Edward James Olmos, seeking to shed new light on a historical incident that had been enshrined in a corrido (folk song), enlisted director Robert M. Young, a longtime practitioner of socially engaged realism, to helm this trailblazing independent film, a landmark of Chicano cinema. Shifting its perspective between the pursuers and the pursued, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a thrilling chase film and a nuanced procedural that peels away the layers of prejudice and myth surrounding Cortez, uncovering the true story of an ordinary man persecuted by the law and transfigured by legend.
• Cast: Bruce McGill, Brion James, Alan Vint, Timothy Scott, Pepe Serna, Michael McGuire, William Sanderson, Barry Corbin, Jack Kehoe, Rosanna DeSoto, Ned Beatty, Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Robert M. Young, Américo Paredes, Victor Villaseñor, H. Frank Dominguez, Moctesuma Esparza, Michael Hausman, David Ochoa, Richard Soto, David Wisnievitz, Reynaldo Villalobos, John Bertucci, Arthur Coburn, W. Michael Lewis, Michael Scott Goldbaum, Dominick Tavella, Carl Copeland
• Director: Robert M. Young
• Runtime: 1:46
• Company: Embassy International Pictures, Filmhaus Productions, American Playhouse Theatrical Films, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Moctesuma Esparza Productions, Inc., National Council of La Raza (NCLR), The National Endowment for the Humanities, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie