Villa!!

Villa!! (1958)

Out of the mountains stormed Mexico's raging Robin Hood! The earth swarmed with his thundering men on horseback! The mountains roared his name . . . . .

Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

Date of release
1958-10-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Adventure, Western
Director
James B. Clark

Casting

Interesting facts

Villa!! is a 1958 American Western film directed by James B. Clark, written by Louis Vittes, and starring Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Carlos Múzquiz and Mario Navarro. The film was released in October 1958, by 20th Century Fox.

Production

The film was originally called The Pancho Villa Story.

The film was shot back to back with Sierra Baron in Mexico, in and around Cherabusco Studios in Mexico City.

Pedro Armendáriz was meant to play Pancho Villa but he was replaced by Rodolfo Hoyos.

Margia Dean recalled the director "was a former film editor. He’d fill the camera with pictorial things, unnatural things. Brian Keith and I had a love scene, but I had my back to him—we couldn’t look into each other's eyes. That director was shooting for the scenery. He made it uncomfortable, and thus made it hard to be convincing. I remember they built this Indian village—and a portable toilet.

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