| El Corrido | |
|---|---|
| El Carpa de Los Rasquachis | |
| Directed by | Luis Valdez Kirk Browning |
| Screenplay by | Luis Valdez |
| Based on | La Gran Carpas de los Rasquachis |
| Produced by | Barbara Schultz |
| Starring | Felix Alvarez, Lily Alvarez, Daniel Valdez, Luis Valdez, Jose Delgado, Socorro Cruz |
Production company | PBS |
| Distributed by | PBS |
Release date |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
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| Language | Spanish |
El Corrido is a 1976 musical comedy made for TV film directed and written by Luis Valdez, and produced by El Teatro Campesino.[1] The film was adapted from Valdez's stage musical La Gran Carpa de los Rasquachis, which was also produced with El Teatro Campesino.[2] El Corrido was aired on PBS on November 4, 1976 as part of its Ballad of a Farmworker television series on the series Visions.[3][4]
The film stars Felix Alvarez as Jesus Pelado Rasquachi, a young Mexican man who travels to the United States in search of work, suffering various unfortunate and comical events along the way.
- ^ Noriega, Chon A. (2000). Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 120, 126–130. ISBN 9781452904276.
- ^ Huerta, Jorge; Jorge, Huerta (November 16, 2000). Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth. Cambridge University Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780521778176.
- ^ Cienfuegos, Javier (December 17, 2014). "La Carpa De Los Rasquachis". Latino/a Mobility in California History. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
- ^ Martinez, Julio A. (1979). Chicano Scholars and Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Directory. Scarecrow Press. p. 531. ISBN 9780810812055.