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Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade.
Viva Villa!: Directed by Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman. With Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray, Donald Cook. After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Arguably the only good movie to ever contain an exclamation point in its title, director Jack Conway's Viva Villa! is an exciting MGM biopic based on the life of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, and was one of the major box-office successes of 1934, but, truth be told, Conway didn't really ...
Viva Villa! After an overseer beats his peon father to death, a young Pancho Villa spills his first blood when he enacts revenge on the man. Retreating to the hills, Villa (Wallace Beery)...
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Mar 12, 2012 · In 1933, ten years after Pancho Villa’s assassination, Howard Hawks was filming the movie Viva Villa!, 200 miles outside of Mexico City, when he received Villa’s last saddle as a gift from the general’s widow, María Luz Corral de Villa. On January 28, that saddle sold for a world record bid, $625,000—more than four times its reserve ...
Jun 25, 2017 · Viva Villa! is nothing short of a pre-Code epic. Running nearly two full hours, it was shot on location, it has hundreds of extras, some very big stars emoting very bigly, and the fate of a country at the center of its story.
Wallace Beery stars in Viva Villa! (1934), the story of the bandit chief who led the battle for Mexican independence.
