El Corrido

El Corrido
El Carpa de Los Rasquachis
Directed byLuis Valdez Kirk Browning
Screenplay byLuis Valdez
Based onLa Gran Carpas de los Rasquachis
Produced byBarbara Schultz
StarringFelix 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
LanguageSpanish

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.