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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.
Original Release
08/19/1983
US Release
08/19/1983
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Cast
Name | Character |
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James Gammon | Sheriff Frank Fly |
Tom Bower | Boone Choate / Boone Chate |
Bruce McGill | Reporter Blakely |
Brion James | Captain Rogers |
Alan Vint | Mike Trimmell |
Timothy Scott | Sheriff Morris |
Pepe Serna | Romaldo Cortez |
Michael McGuire | Sheriff Glover |
William Sanderson | Cowboy |
Barry Corbin | B.R. Abernathy / BR Abernathy |
Directors
Writers
Robert M. Young, Américo Paredes, Victor Villaseñor
Cast
Name | Character |
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James Gammon | Sheriff Frank Fly |
Tom Bower | Boone Choate / Boone Chate |
Bruce McGill | Reporter Blakely |
Brion James | Captain Rogers |
Alan Vint | Mike Trimmell |
Timothy Scott | Sheriff Morris |
Pepe Serna | Romaldo Cortez |
Michael McGuire | Sheriff Glover |
William Sanderson | Cowboy |
Barry Corbin | B.R. Abernathy / BR Abernathy |
Jack Kehoe | Prosecutor Pierson |
Rosanna DeSoto | Carlota Muñoz / Carlotta Muñoz |
Ned Beatty | Lynch Mob Leader |
Edward James Olmos | Gregorio Cortez |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Richard Soto | Executive Producer |
H. Frank Dominguez | Executive Producer |
David Ochoa | Executive Producer |
Edward James Olmos | Producer |
Moctesuma Esparza | Producer |
Michael Hausman | Producer |
David Wisnievitz | Producer |