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Viva Villa! *** (1934, Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 9760

Viva Villa! (1934) and an MGM mess in Mexico…  Directors Jack Conway and Howard Hawks’s fictionalised 1934 historical adventure Viva Villa! Stars the irrepressible Wallace Beery, who shines as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, […]

May, 13

Villa Rides *** (1968, Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella, Charles Bronson, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 9676

An oddly hairy Yul Brynner struggles against his miscasting as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa (played by Wallace Beery in 1934’s Viva Villa!, by Rodolfo Hoyos Jr in 1958’s Villa!!, and by Telly Savalas […]

Apr, 25

Pancho Villa [El Desafio de Pancho Villa] *½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors, Anne Francis ) – Classic Movie Review 6346

An exciting train-crunching station shootout climax helps to save director Eugenio [Gene] Martin’s too often mundane and dreary 1971 paella Western from total tedium. And so do the star cast of Telly Savalas as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, […]

Dec, 02

Viva Zapata! **** (1952, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2382

Buried under a big moustache and a big hat, Marlon Brando may be very oddly, indeed uncomfortably, cast as the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in director Elia Kazan’s 1952 historical drama biopic. But nevertheless Brando […]

Apr, 12

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