Overview - Zoot Suit

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Daniel Valdez

  Character: Henry Reyna

  Popularity: 0.4565

  

• Name: Edward James Olmos

  Character: El Pachuco

  Popularity: 2.3008

  

• Name: Charles Aidman

  Character: George Shearer

  Popularity: 0.7243

  

• Name: Tyne Daly

  Character: Alice Bloomfield

  Popularity: 1.3707

  

• Name: John Anderson

  Character: Judge F.W. Charles

  Popularity: 1.2087

  

• Name: Abel Franco

  Character: Enrique

  Popularity: 0.3828

  

• Name: Mike Gomez

  Character: Joey / Jose Torres

  Popularity: 1.9835

  

• Name: Alma Martinez

  Character: Lupe

  Popularity: 1.9734