El Corrido

El Corrido
La Carpa de Los Rasquachis
Directed by
Screenplay byLuis Valdez
Based onLa Gran Carpas de los Rasquachis
Produced byBarbara Schultz
Starring
  • Felix Alvarez
  • Lily Alvarez
  • Daniel Valdez
  • Luis Valdez
  • Jose Delgado
  • Socorro Cruz
Production
company
PBS
Distributed byPBS
Release date
  • November 4, 1976 (1976-11-04)
Running time
109 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • Mexico
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish

El Corrido is a 1976 musical comedy made-for-TV film directed and written by Luis Valdez, and produced by El Teatro Campesino. The film was adapted from Valdez's stage musical La Gran Carpa de los Rasquachis, which was also produced with El Teatro Campesino. El Corrido was aired on PBS on November 4, 1976, as part of its Ballad of a Farmworker television series on the series Visions.

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.