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20% Rotten Tomatoes Produced by Albert Band Initial release January 1979 (McAllen) Music director Tommy Leonetti | 5.2/10 IMDb Directed by Albert Band Story by Cleo Dawson Director Albert Band | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay by Frank Ray Perilli, Albert Band Based on She Came to the Valley: A Novel of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Mission Texas
by Cleo Dawson Starring Ronee Blakley
Dean Stockwell
Scott Glenn
Anna Jones
Freddy Fender
Anna Jones
Jennifer Jones
Rafael Flores Jr.
Sol Marroquin
John Hayes
Robby Romero
Frank Ray Perilli Screenplay Albert Band, Frank Ray Perilli Producers Albert Band, Frank Ray Perilli Cast Scott Glenn, Ronee Blakley, Dean Stockwell, Freddy Fender, Evelyn Guerrero Similar Scott Glenn movies, Westerns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
She came to the valley trailer 1979 movie
She Came to the Valley is a western-genre film made in the late 1970s. It starred Ronee Blakley, Scott Glenn, Freddy Fender, and Dean Stockwell. It is based on a novel by Cleo Dawson.
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She came to the valley
Background
The film is a western set in 1915. It is based on one of Cleo Dawson's novels that was written in 1943. The title of the novel was, She Came to the Valley: A Novel of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Mission Texas. It is said to be based on her mothers experiences. The film was shot in South Texas's Rio Grande Valley, but a small portion was shot in Oklahoma. In its first run it broke weekend attendance records at Rio Grande theatres.
Later years
About three decades later in July 2008, there was a reunion with some of the cast having a party at the Mission Historical Museum.
Story
It's about a poor family that leaves Oklahoma for Texas. They are persuaded by a drifter to move to the valley. It is discovered that the drifter is a supporter of the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. The family become involved in a dispute between Pancho Villa's men and the government soldiers. Her husband later dies and she finds herself the subject of attention by a man called Bill who she learns is a gun runner for Villa. Pancho Villa was played by Freddy Fender.
Other
In January 1979, Maria Luz Corral de Villa came to McAllen, Texas, a south border town to see Kika de la Garza, to present him with a pardon request for her late husband to be exonerated for his actions against the United States. Ms de Villa who at the age of 84 was in frail health arrived by air ambulance. She was assisted by aide Sol Marroquin. Marroquin, the author of Part of the Team (Story of an American Hero) also played the part of Colonel Vaccaro in the film.