JOHNNY CHICANO

When a young peasant (Fernando Allende) falls in love with the daughter of his wealthy American employer (Verónica Castro), he creates nothing but trouble—and eventually, violence—for his Mexican girlfriend and her family. Updating the tropes of classical Hollywood melodrama to sweaty, working class early ‘80s Mexico, Enrique Gómez Vadillo's JOHNNY CHICANO is an underseen classic of Mexican genre filmmaking.