Title from sell sheet. Based on the play by Luis Valdez. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. Wide screen. Bonus features: new interview with writer/director Luis Valdez; new audio commentary by filmmaker/historian Daniel Kremer; theatrical trailer. Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Tyne Daly, Charles Aidman, John Anderson.
Summary:
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and a group of his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence and sent to San Quentin, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win Henry and his friends their freedom.
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