25 Oct 1978
Le Pion
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.
Old Gringo
A woman inspired by a man of dreams swept into the arms of a general, and drawn into a worlds of danger.
A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Top Billed Cast
Jane Fonda Harriet Winslow
Gregory Peck Ambrose Bierce
Jimmy Smits Gen. Tomas Arroyo
Gabriela Roel La luna
Patricio Contreras Col. Frutos Garcia
Sergio Calderón Zacarias
Guillermo Ríos Monsalvo
Jim Metzler Ron
Anne Pitoniak Mrs. Winslow
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. Pancho Villa
Samuel Valadez De La Torre Consul Saunders
Jenny Gag La Garduna
Salvador Sánchez Floreal
Maya Zapata Dolores
Stanley Grover Gen. Saunders
Josefina Echánove Clementina
Isabel del Puerto Women (uncredited)
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