A writer forms a triangle with a schoolmarm and a Mexican general on the run.
Acting
Peck's weathered gravitas vs. Fonda's repressed intensity.
Cinematography
Mexican landscapes shot like fever dreams.
Director
Luis Puenzo
Jane Fonda
Harriet Winslow
Gregory Peck
Ambrose Bierce
Jimmy Smits
Gen. Tomas Arroyo
Gabriela Roel
La luna
Patricio Contreras
Col. Frutos Garcia
Sergio Calderón
Zacarias
Guillermo Ríos
Monsalvo
Jim Metzler
Ron
Anne Pitoniak
Mrs. Winslow
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pancho Villa
Salvador Sánchez
Floreal
Maya Zapata
Dolores
Stanley Grover
Gen. Saunders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Gregory Peck's final theatrical film; he reportedly took the role specifically to work in Mexico.
Based on Carlos Fuentes' novel 'The Old Gringo,' itself speculation about real journalist Ambrose Bierce's mysterious 1914 disappearance in Mexico.
US
