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Viva Villa

The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of Mexican bandit and patriot Pancho Villa. Villa fought the Diaz regime, whose soldiers killed his father. He later became one of the most ruthless Mexican bandits, but also helped put the honorable Francisco Madero in power. After Madero's assassination, Villa himself led his country, however, being a better fighter than a bureaucrat, he gave up the presidency when he could restore Mexico to its people.

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  • "The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of Mexican bandit and patriot Pancho Villa. Villa fought the Diaz regime, whose soldiers killed his father. He later became one of the most ruthless Mexican bandits, but also helped put the honorable Francisco Madero in power. After Madero's assassination, Villa himself led his country, however, being a better fighter than a bureaucrat, he gave up the presidency when he could restore Mexico to its people."
  • "The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of Mexican bandit and patriot Pancho Villa. Villa fought the Diaz regime, whose soldiers killed his father. He later became one of the most ruthless Mexican bandits, but also helped put the honorable Francisco Madero in power. After Madero's assassination, Villa himself led his country, however, being a better fighter than a bureaucrat, he gave up the presidency when he could restore Mexico to its people."@en
  • "The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of Mexican bandit & patriot Pancho Villa. Villa fought the Diaz regime, whose soldiers killed his father. He became one of the most ruthless Mexican bandits, but also helped put the honorable Francisco Madero in power. After Madero's assassination, Villa himself led his country. Being a better fighter than a bureaucrat, he gave up the presidency when he could restore Mexico to its people."@en
  • ""In the 1880's, after his 'peon' father dies from a whipping ordered by a greedy Spanish landowner, Pancho Villa stabs and kills the executioner and then flees into the hills of Chihuahua, Mexico. Many years later, the now grown Pancho enjoys a reputation as 'The Cucaracha, ' a notorious bandit who robs and kills the wealthy and befriends the poor. One day, Pancho's army of avenging bandits is joined by American reporter Johnny Sykes, whom Pancho commandeers to write flattering, exciting reports about the bandits' exploits. As the term of Mexican president Porfirio Diaz reaches its height of bloody injustice, Pancho is called by Don Felipe, an aristocratic revolutionary, to see Francisco Madero, a gentle rebel known as 'The Christ-Fool.' Moved by Madero's patriotic words, Pancho agrees to help lead a revolutionary army and orders his men to become 'soldiers of liberty.' After Don Felipe, an aristocratic revolutionary, introduces notorious womanizer Pancho to his beautiful sister Teresa, Pancho rounds up the nation's poor and leads them into many battles. Although successful in combat, Pancho is reprimanded by Madero for killing the wounded enemy and is sent to take orders from General Pascal, who is about to attack government stronghold Santa Rosalia. When, however, Johnny mistakenly reports to his newspaper that the revolutionary army has already taken Santa Rosalia, Villa promises the journalist that his story will not be refuted and refuses to obey Pascal's orders to wait several weeks to attack. Villa's subsequent success at Santa Rosalia and at Juarez eventually leads to the abdication of Diaz and the naming of Madero as president. In spite of his victories, Villa is advised by Madero to return to the country and give up soldiering. Although suspicious of Pascal, who is accompanying Madero to Mexico City, Villa agrees to return to Chihuahua and disbands his army. Later, while Madero struggles to pass land reform legislation, Villa is arrested after his murderous henchman, Sierra, kills a bank clerk who had refused to give Pancho his savings after closing time. The day before Pancho is to be executed for the crime, Pascal, who is overseeing the killing, receives a telegram from Madero, which stipulates that Pancho is to be exiled. Crushed by the apparent betrayal of his beloved Madero, Pancho goes to El Paso, Texas, and becomes a drunk. In Mexico City, before his land reform measure is passed, Madero is assassinated by Pascal and his co-conspirators. Johnny eventually tracks Pancho to El Paso and inspires him to return to Mexico and oust Pascal. Although Pancho leads his 'peon' army to a new series of victories, his brutal combat tactics outrage Don Felipe and Teresa. Desperate to possess Teresa, Pancho tries to force himself on her, and when she resists his advances, Sierra shoots and kills her. Later, following a long siege of Pascal's fortress, Pancho overthrows his enemy and condemns him to a slow, torturous death. As the new leader of Mexico, Pancho is overwhelmed with mounting economic problems and, once Madero's land reform is instituted, gladly relinquishes his authority. Back in Chihuahua, as he chats with Johnny outside a butcher shop, Pancho is shot to death by the revenge-crazy Don Felipe"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
  • "Drame biographique racontant la vie du hors-la-loi et patriote mexicain Pancho Villa. Dans les années 1880, le jeune Pancho assiste au meurtre de son père par un officier du régime tyrannique de Diaz, et devient un bandit anti-gouvernemental. Il appuie l'élection de Francisco Madero, mais celui-ci est bientôt assassiné. Pancho devient alors un leader du peuple mais reconnaissant ses lacunes bureaucratiques, quitte la présidence quand il sent avoir restauré le Mexique à son peuple. Avec Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray."
  • "The sometimes heroic, sometimes infamous deeds of legendary Mexican bandit and patriot Pancho Villa are brought to life in this biographical film."@en
  • "Biografia di Pancho Villa: con la sua banda di peones contribuisce alla caduta del dittatore messicano Diaz; dopo la morte del nuovo presidente e un tentativo controrivoluzionario si autoproclama dittatore e diventa sempre più sanguinario, finendo ucciso dal suo ex alleato don Felipe. (Mereghetti)."@it

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  • "Historical"
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  • "Historical re-creations"@en
  • "Feature"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Biographies"@en
  • "Adaptation"
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  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Western (Genere)"@it
  • "Biographical"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en

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  • "Viva Villa"@en
  • "Viva Villa"
  • "Viva Villa!"@it
  • "Viva Villa!"
  • "Viva Villa!"@en
  • "Viva villa!"

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