The ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Resource Information

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Label

The ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Statement of responsibility

Moctesuma Esparza Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by Victor Villaseñor ; produced by Moctesuma Esparza and Michael Hausman ; directed by Robert M. Young

Contributor

• Villaseñor, Victor
• Hausman, Michael
• Lewis, W. Michael
• Bower, Tom, 1938-
• McGill, Bruce, 1950-
• Olmos, Edward James
• Young, Robert M., 1924-
• Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999
• Villalobos, Reynaldo
• Bertucci, John
• Coburn, Arthur
• Moctesuma Esparza Productions
• Esparza, Moctesuma
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Gammon, James

Actor

• Bower, Tom, 1938-
• Olmos, Edward James
• McGill, Bruce, 1950-
• Gammon, James

Director of photography

• Villalobos, Reynaldo

Editor of moving image work

• Coburn, Arthur
• Bertucci, John

Film director

• Young, Robert M., 1924-

Film producer

• Esparza, Moctesuma
• Hausman, Michael

Production company

• Moctesuma Esparza Productions

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Villaseñor, Victor

Subject

• Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Texas -- Drama
• Texas
• Texas -- Ethnic relations -- Drama
• Trials (Murder)
• Trials (Murder) -- Texas -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Western films
• Western films
• 1865-1918
• Cortez, Gregorio, 1875-1916 -- Drama
• Cortez, Gregorio, 1875-1916
• Drama
• Ethnic relations
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations

Genre

• Drama
• Western films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Forced to run from the Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation, 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

Member of

• Criterion collection, 940

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Executive producers, David Ochoa, H. Frank Dominguez ; photography, Ray Villalobos ; editors, Arthur Coburn, John Bertucci ; music, W. Michael Lewis, Edward James Olmos

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

English and Spanish dialogue; English subtitles for English dialogue, Spanish subtitles for Spanish dialogue

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.B3553 2018

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

106

Series statement

The Criterion Collection

Series volume

940

Technique

live action