Asedillo | |
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Directed by | Celso Ad Castillo |
Screenplay by | Celso Ad Castillo |
Story by | Celso Ad Castillo |
Produced by | FPJ |
Starring | Fernando Poe Jr. |
Cinematography | Sergio Lobo |
Edited by | Augusto Salvador |
Music by | Restie Umali |
Production company | |
Distributed by | FPJ Productions |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | Philippines |
Language | Filipino |
Asedillo is a 1971 Philippine biographical period action film written and directed by Celso Ad Castillo and produced by Fernando Poe Jr., who also stars in the lead role of Teodoro Asedillo, a former schoolteacher-turned-labor leader who later became known as "The Terror of the Sierra Madre". The film co-stars Paquito Diaz, Barbara Perez, and Carlos Padilla Jr.
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.[1][2][3][4][5]