Viva Villa!

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

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

George E. Stone

as Emilio Chavito

Phillip Cooper

as Pancho Villa as a Boy

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Wallace Beery does fine here as the legendary Mexican bandit-cum-patriot Pancho Villa. He pretty much pleases himself as he and his men maraud the countryside imposing their own unique sort of revolutionary justice. Then he meets the sophisticated democrat Madero (Henry B. Walthall) who dreams of a ...

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