Viva Villa!

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Viva Villa!

1934,

1h 55m,

History/

Drama

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56%

9 Reviews

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250+ Ratings

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9 Reviews

45%

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250+ Ratings

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 of years as a vicious bandit, brutally attacking the wealthy, which earns him the respect of the poor. When revolutionary Don Felipe de Castillo (Donald Cook) realizes he can utilize Villa's bloodlust, he brings the bandit to the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall).

Variety Staff

Variety

Feb 23, 2012

It's a big, impressive production which sets out to make Wallace Beery's Pancho Villa appear as a somewhat sympathetic and quasi-patriotic bandit. But Beery's characterization... lets Pancho down too much.

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D.F. Taylor

Cinema Quarterly

Feb 3, 2021

The whole film fails as a social document; revolutionary ideals become purposeless when there are no causes.

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Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)

Esquire Magazine

Apr 17, 2020

As it is, we have a relentless piece of entertainment.

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Ann Ross

Maclean's Magazine

Jul 22, 2019

This picture is noisy, violent and occasionally brutal. It is also spectacular, authoritative and intensely interesting. Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa has never been better. A picture for the hardier-minded.

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Helen Brown Norden

Vanity Fair

Jun 12, 2019

There is also no denying the fact that Wallace Beery is not everybody's Villa.

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Film4 Staff

Film4

Jan 31, 2012

A sparky Hecht screenplay enlivens this high-gloss western.

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Albus P

Jan 7, 2017

There is enough humour in this film to make it a bit more interesting than other films from the 1930's. I still fell asleep about 15 times trying to watch it so it isn't that riveting.

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Synopsis

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 of years as a vicious bandit, brutally attacking the wealthy, which earns him the respect of the poor. When revolutionary Don Felipe de Castillo (Donald Cook) realizes he can utilize Villa's bloodlust, he brings the bandit to the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall).

Director: Jack Conway
Producer: David O. Selznick
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 1934, Original
Release Date (DVD): May 5, 2015
Runtime: 1h 55m

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