At a Lame Pace

May 29, 1980

2h 2m

★ 4.1

... and one day they discovered that, lacking a leg, an arm, an eye, they had plenty of desire to fight, to enjoy, to steal, to rape ... to live!

Overview

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Conacite Dos

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Cast

Priest

Luis Manuel Pelayo

Commander

Bruno Rey

The One-Eyed Man

Roberto 'El Flaco' Guzmán

Matias, the Blind Man

Noé Murayama

Roberto Cobo

Captain

Julio Alejandro Lobato

Cojo

Enrique Lucero

Yolanda Ochoa

Mario Zebadúa

Ramón, the Fool

Gabriel Retes

Cojo

Carlos Nieto

The Pig's Wife

Carmen Salinas

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