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Movie Info

After an overseer beats his peon father to death, a young Pancho Villa spills his first blood when he enacts revenge on the man. Retreating to the hills, Villa (Wallace Beery) spends a number of years as a vicious bandit, brutally attacking the wealthy, which earns him the respect of the poor. When revolutionary Don Felipe de Castillo (Donald Cook) realizes he can utilize Villa's bloodlust, he brings the bandit to the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall).

Genre:

drama, history
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jack Conway
Producer:

David O. Selznick
Release Date (Streaming):

May 5, 2015
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast & Crew

Wallace Beery
Pancho Villa

Leo Carrillo
Sierra

Fay Wray
Teresa

Stu Erwin
Jonny Sykes

Donald Cook
Don Felipe de Castillo

George E. Stone
Emilio Chavito

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Critic Reviews for Viva Villa!

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (4)

It's a big, impressive production which sets out to make Wallace Beery's Pancho Villa appear as a somewhat sympathetic and quasi-patriotic bandit. But Beery's characterization... lets Pancho down too much.

February 23, 2012 | Full Review…

Variety Staff
Variety
The whole film fails as a social document; revolutionary ideals become purposeless when there are no causes.

February 3, 2021 | Full Review…

D.F. Taylor
Cinema Quarterly
As it is, we have a relentless piece of entertainment.

April 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
Esquire Magazine
This picture is noisy, violent and occasionally brutal. It is also spectacular, authoritative and intensely interesting. Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa has never been better. A picture for the hardier-minded.

July 22, 2019 | Full Review…

Ann Ross
Maclean's Magazine
There is also no denying the fact that Wallace Beery is not everybody's Villa.

June 12, 2019 | Full Review…

Helen Brown Norden
Vanity Fair
A sparky Hecht screenplay enlivens this high-gloss western.

January 31, 2012 | Full Review…

Film4 Staff
Film4
The life of the famous Mexican bandit and revolutionary is told in this exciting action drama.

January 31, 2012 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
It might be the hammy Beery's best movie role ever.

May 10, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Though Jack Conway gets creit, it's Howard Hawks who's responsible for this exciting biopic of the legendary revolutionary leader, well played by Wallace Beery, and one of MGM's biggest hits of 1934.

March 27, 2009 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
In casting the homely Wallace Beery as one of the heroes of the Mexican Revolution, Hollywood announced its intentions: they weren't going to take it seriously.

July 9, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

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Audience Reviews for Viva Villa!

May 22, 2014

Wallace Beery plays Villa as a stereotype which takes away from the role that Pancho Villa played in the history of Mexico and frankly makes them all a bit ignorant for following him. We need a more accurate portrayal.

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