La marcha a Zacatecas

Aug 28, 1969

1h 30m

★ 5.0

Overview

Villistas, army officers, heirs and heiresses all gather at the home of a recently deceased hacendado. Everybody has an agenda, everybody butts heads in comical ways. Or not so much.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Radeant Films

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Cast

Teniente Rodolfo Robles

Rodolfo de Anda

Sargento Margarito

Héctor Suárez

Capitán Agustín Tovar

Jorge Lavat

Mayor González

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Coronel Santos

Tito Junco

Don Eusebio

José Elías Moreno

Doña María viuda de Altamirano

Rosario Gálvez

Rosa María

Nora Lárraga 'Karla'

María Isabel

Claudia Islas

Marion, la francesa

Jacqueline Fellay

María Suzuki, la japonesa

Eva Muller

Mary, la americana

Nancy Glenn

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