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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 ...
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) spends a number...
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Director. Ben Hecht. Screenplay. In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Viva Villa! | film by Conway [1934] | Britannica. Contents. Viva Villa! film by Conway [1934] Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Jack Conway: Heyday of the 1930s. His success continued with Viva Villa! (1934), starring Wallace Beery as the legendary revolutionary Pancho Villa.
May 5, 2015 · VIVA VILLA! (MGM, 1934) is a rousing, well made biopic about the legendary bandit/patriot Pancho Villa, who led the war for Mexican Independence in the 1910s.
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