Viva Villa!
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 original Italian lobby card |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway Uncredited: Howard Hawks William Wellman |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Written by | Ben Hecht Uncredited: Howard Hawks James Kevin McGuinness Howard Emmett Rogers |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Wray Leo Carrillo |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | April 10, 1934 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture 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 allegedly urinating drunkenly off a balcony onto a Mexican military parade below.[citation needed] Tracy's career never fully recovered from this incident,[citation needed] although he did make other films, most notably Gore Vidal's The Best Man thirty years later.
It was the highest-grossing film of 1934.[citation needed]
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[edit] Cast
- Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa
- Leo Carrillo as Sierra
- Fay Wray as Teresa
- Donald Cook as Don Felipe de Castillo
- Stuart Erwin as Jonny Sykes
- Henry B. Walthall as Francisco Madero
- Joseph Schildkraut as Gen. Pascal
- Katherine DeMille as Rosita Morales (as Katherine de Mille)
- George E. Stone as Emilio Chavito
- Phillip Cooper as Pancho Villa as a boy
- David Durand as Bugle boy
- Frank Puglia as Pancho Villa's father
- Ralph Bushman as Wallace Calloway, reporter (as Francis X. Bushman Jr.)
- Adrian Rosley as Alphonso Mendoza
- Henry Armetta as Alfredo Mendosa
- Arturo Arzate as telegraph operator
[edit] Awards
The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards:[1]
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- Assistant Director (John Waters)
- Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer)
- Writing (Adaptation) (Ben Hecht)
[edit] In popular culture
Viva Villa! partially inspired the creation of Elia Kazan's 1952 film Viva Zapata!, written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando.
[edit] See also
- Let's Go With Pancho Villa - A 1936 Mexican film about Villa
[edit] References
- ^ "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/7th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
[edit] External links
- Viva Villa! at the Internet Movie Database
- Viva Villa! at the TCM Movie Database
- Viva Villa! at AllRovi
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