At a Lame Pace(1980)
... and one day they discovered that, lacking a leg, an arm, an eye, they had plenty of desire to fight, to enjoy, to steal, to rape ... to live!
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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1980-05-29
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... and one day they discovered that, lacking a leg, an arm, an eye, they had plenty of desire to fight, to enjoy, to steal, to rape ... to live!
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