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Viva Villa!
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| Viva Villa! | |
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 original Italian lobby card |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway Howard Hawks (uncredited) William Wellman (uncredited) |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Written by | Ben Hecht |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Wray Leo Carrillo |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| IMDb profile | |
Viva Villa! (1934) is a movie starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The film was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman also contributed uncredited directing help.
The movie is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Fay Wray. Lee Tracy was originally cast in a supporting role but was fired after drunkenly urinating off a balcony onto the Mexican crowd below. Tracy's career never fully recovered from this incident, although he did make other films, most notably Gore Vidal's The Best Man thirty years later.
This film partially inspired the creation of the 1952 film titled Viva Zapata!, written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando.
Beery had played Villa once before, in a supporting role, in a 1917 film starring Irene Castle called Patria,
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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 (as Katherine de Mille)
George E. Stone ... Emilio Chavito
Phillip Cooper ... Pancho Villa as a boy
David Durand ... Bugle boy
Frank Puglia ... Pancho Villa's father
Ralph Bushman ... Wallace Calloway (reporter) (as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
Adrian Rosley ... Alphonso Mendoza
Henry Armetta ... Alfredo Mendosa
"Viva Villa!" is a shout meant to praise Pancho Villa in times of injustice, much like "Viva Zapata!"
Viva Villa is also a cocktail made of Tequila, lime juice and powdered sugar.
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