The Life of General Villa (1914)

Directed by

Christy Cabanne, Raoul Walsh

Genre

documentary film, drama film, action film, silent film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film follows Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution. It mixes staged drama with real battle footage shot in the middle of the war.

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What happens

The Life of General Villa is a 1914 American silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself, shot on location during a civil war. The film incorporated both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution, around which the plot of the film revolves. The film was produced by D. W. Griffith and featured future famous director Raoul Walsh as the younger version of Villa. Currently the film is presumably lost, with only unedited fragments and publicity stills known to exist. The making of the film and associated events were dramatized in the film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) with Antonio Banderas starring as Villa and Kyle Chandler playing Walsh. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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