Godfather Mendoza

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| director = Fernando de Fuentes

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• José Castellot Jr.
• Rafael Ángel Frías
• Antonio Prida Santacilia

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| writer = Mauricio Magdaleno

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• Fernando de Fuentes
• Juan Bustillo Oro

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• Alfredo del Diestro
• Carmen Guerrero
• Antonio R. Frausto

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| music = Manuel Castro Padilla

| cinematography = Ross Fisher

| editing = Fernando de Fuentes

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| released = {{Film date|1934}}

| runtime = 85 minutes

| country = Mexico

| language = Spanish

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Godfather Mendoza (Spanish: El compadre Mendoza) is a 1934 Mexican film. It was directed by Fernando de Fuentes, and is the second of his Revolution Trilogy, preceded by El prisionero trece (1933) and followed by Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936).

In 1994, the Mexican magazine Somos published a list of "The 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico" in its 100th edition and choose El compadre Mendoza the 3rd best of all time, just behind Vámonos con Pancho Villa and Los olvidados.[http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/pelicula1.html Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208075046/http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/pelicula1.html |date=2010-02-08 }}. September 17, 2012