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The ballad of Gregorio Cortez [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2018.

Cortez, Gregorio, 1875-1916 -- Drama.

Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- Drama.

Judicial error -- Drama.

Texas -- Ethnic relations -- 1865-1918 -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 940.

[videorecording (DVD)].

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (106 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the book "With his pistol in his hand" by Américo Paredes.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with actor and producer Edward James Olmos ; new interview with Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema ; cast-and-crew panel from 2016 including Olmos; director Robert M. Young; producer Moctesuma Esparza; cinematographer Reynaldo Villalobos; and actors Bruce McGill, Tom Bower, Rosanna DeSoto, and Pepe Serna; PLUS: an essay by film scholar Charles Ramirez Berg.

In English and Spanish with English (SDH) subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Directed by Robert M. Young ; produced by Moctesuma Esparza.

Edward James Olmos with James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill, Brion James, Alan Vint, Timothy Scott and Pepe Serna.

"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 it's 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."--Container.

Biographical films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999. With his pistol in his hand.

Young, Robert M., 1924-

Olmos, Edward James.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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