The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1936)

Directed by

Edmundo Padilla, Felix Padilla

Genre

biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is a compilation made by the Padilla family from earlier movies about the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. It combines fact and fiction with new title cards and a re-enactment of Villa's death.

historically significantpatchworkfragmentarybiographicallow-budgetnostalgicauthentic

What happens

The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36)—Spanish title La Venganza de Pancho Villa—is a compilation film made by the Padilla family in El Paso, Texas, USA, from dozens of fact-based and fictional films about the celebrated Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878–1923). The films were stitched together with original bilingual title cards and dramatic re-enactments of Villa's assassination were added to the revised print. The Revenge of Pancho Villa provides stirring evidence of a vital Mexican American film presence during the 1910s-1930s. In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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