Zoot Suit

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.

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  Edward James Olmos

  El Pachuco
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  Charles Aidman

  George Shearer
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  Tyne Daly

  Alice Bloomfield
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  John Anderson

  Judge F.W. Charles
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  Mike Gomez

  Joey / Jose Torres
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  Alma Martinez

  Lupe
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  Francis X. McCarthy

  Press
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  Lupe Ontiveros

  Dolores
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  Ed Peck

  Lieutenant Edwards
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  Robert Phalen

  District Attorney