The ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The ballad of Gregorio Cortez

DVD - 2018

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.

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Subjects
Cortez, Gregorio, > 1875-1916 > Drama.
Mexican Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Texas > Drama.
Trials (Murder) > Texas > Drama.
Fugitives from justice > Drama.
Action and adventure films.
Texas > Ethnic relations > 1865-1918 > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2018]
Language
English
Spanish
Corporate Author
Moctesuma Esparza Productions
Corporate Author
Moctesuma Esparza Productions (production company)
Other Authors
Robert M. Young, 1924- (film director), Moctesuma Esparza (film producer), Tom Bower, 1938- (actor), James Gammon (screenwriter), Bruce McGill, 1950- (-), Edward James Olmos, Victor Villaseñor, Michael Hausman, Américo Paredes, 1915-1999
Edition
Widescreen
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.
Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio)
Special features: New 2K digital restoration; New interview; Plus, an essay by film scholar Charles Ramirez Berg.
Based on the book "With His Pistol in His Hand" by Américo Paredes.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural.
Production Credits
Cinematographer, Reynaldo Villalobos ; music, W. Michael Lewis, Edward James Olmos
ISBN
9781681434865
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Mistakenly suspected of stealing a horse, tenant farmer Gregorio Cortez (Edward James Olmos) shoots the arresting lawman in self-defense, leading to a protracted chase by a posse of Texas rangers. Eventually captured and put on trial for murder, Cortez is threatened by a lynch mob hell-bent on their own racist brand of turn-of-the-20th-century frontier justice. Based on a real incident, Robert M. Young's powerful historical drama gets a digital makeover that doesn't disguise its grainy, low-budget roots. Superb extras put this seminal indie film in proper -perspective. [See Trailers, LJ 7/18.] © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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