The 1981 movie "Zoot Suit" starring Edward James Olmos is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot-suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. In the story, Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon.