El Corrido
| El Corrido | |
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| La Carpa de Los Rasquachis | |
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| Screenplay by | Luis Valdez |
| Based on | La Gran Carpas de los Rasquachis |
| Produced by | Barbara Schultz |
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Production company | PBS |
| Distributed by | PBS |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
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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.