The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
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A Mexican-American farmer kills a sheriff in a tragic mistranslation and flees on horseback across Texas, evading hundreds of lawmen for days.
Why watch: Added to the National Film Registry. Olmos personally toured the country with the print to find audiences.
Cast
Edward James Olmos as Gregorio Cortez
James Gammon as Sheriff Frank Fly
Tom Bower as Boone Chate
Bruce McGill as Reporter Blakely
Brion James as Captain Rogers
Alan Vint as Mike Trimmell
Timothy Scott as Sheriff Morris
Pepe Serna as Romaldo Cortez
Michael McGuire as Sheriff Glover
William Sanderson as Cowboy
Barry Corbin as B. R. Abernathy
Jack Kehoe as Prosecutor Pierson
Rosanna DeSoto as Carlotta Muñoz
Buddy Vigil as Skin
Zach Porter as Fly's Posse
Crew
Robert M. Young — Director
Robert M. Young — Screenplay
Américo Paredes — Novel
Victor Villaseñor — Screenplay
Richard Soto — Executive Producer
Moctesuma Esparza — Producer
Michael Hausman — Producer
David Ochoa — Executive Producer
H. Frank Dominguez — Executive Producer
Reynaldo Villalobos — Director of Photography
John Bertucci — Editor
Arthur Coburn — Editor
Stuart Wurtzel — Production Design
Carl Copeland — Art Direction
Hilary Rosenfeld — Costume Design
Edward James Olmos — Original Music Composer
W. Michael Lewis — Original Music Composer
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