If there was a reason for veteran actor Edward James Olmos to resurrect his magnetic role in “Zoot Suit,” it’s to honor the man behind that landmark work centering the Mexican American experience. Olmos gets back into his swag-spilling persona as an otherworldly, Caló-speaking figure from the 1940s, now only in voice, to narrate “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez.” This playful and comprehensive biographical documentary from director David Alvarado spends time with a deserving trailblazer whose name and accomplishments perhaps aren’t engraved in the American consciousness, but should be.
It’s not an overestimation to say that Latino storytelling in the U.S. owes plenty to what Valdez did with
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