Asedillo (1971)
2h
Running Time
September 3, 1971Release Date
Asedillo (1971)
2h
Running Time
September 3, 1971Release Date
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Plot.
Celso Ad. Castillo's gracefully proportioned action drama about a schoolteacher turned rebel leader. Cemented Filipino action star Fernando Poe Jr.'s persona as a champion of the poor and oppressed.
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Asedillo is a 1971 Philippine bio-pic, period and action film written and directed by Celso Ad Castillo starring Fernando Poe Jr. as "The Terror of the Sierra Madre", Teodoro Asedillo. The film, while critically and commercially a success, is infamous for having begun the SOP of informing cinema owners ahead of time if Fernando Poe Jr. will die in his films as a riot ensued following the death of Poe's character in a screening in Zamboanga.