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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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