Viva Villa! (1934)
April 27, 1934Release Date
Viva Villa! (1934)
April 27, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Wallace Beery
Pancho Villa
Leo Carrillo
Sierra
Fay Wray
Teresa
Donald Cook
Don Felipe de Castillo
Stuart Erwin
Jonny Sykes
Henry B. Walthall
Francisco Madero
Joseph Schildkraut
Gen. Pascal
Katherine DeMille
Rosita Morales
George E. Stone
Emilio Chavito
Phillip Cooper
Pancho Villa as a Boy
David Durand
Bugle Boy
Frank Puglia
Pancho Villa's Father
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Wallace Calloway
Edgecumb Pinchon
Writer
Mischa Auer
Military Attaché (uncredited)
George Irving
Statesman (uncredited)
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. The film was shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film.
The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the title role and featuring Fay Wray, who had played the leading lady in King Kong the previous year. The supporting cast includes Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille.