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Viva Villa! (1934)

Viva Villa! poster
Directed by
John Waters, William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Howard Hawks
Genre
biographical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 49m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A fictionalized biography of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. It follows his rise from a bandit to a general leading a rebellion against a dictator.

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What happens

Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code Western 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. Parts of the film were shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film. The film is a highly fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the title role and featuring Fay Wray, who had played the leading lady in King Kong the previous year. The supporting cast includes Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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