El Apando (1976)
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- Genre Drama
- AKA The Heist
- Director Felipe Cazals
- Rated NR
- Theatrical Release August 5, 1976
- US DVD Release January 6, 2004
Wherever dope addicts congregate, they circulate horror stories of Mexican prisons. The semi-professional smuggler who falls afoul of the trickery and corruption implicit in the south-of-the-border drug trade is in for a hot season in hell. Groundbreaking for its time and still gut churning and eye opening today, director Felipe Cazals’s El Apando (1976) is an indictment of a penal system that values Become a Mr. Skin Member and get the full review



