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| cinematography = Charles G. Clarke<br>[[James Wong Howe]] |
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| distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway Uncredited: Howard Hawks William Wellman |
| Written by | Ben Hecht Uncredited: Howard Hawks James Kevin McGuinness Howard Emmett Rogers |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Wray Leo Carrillo |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke James Wong Howe Gabriel Figueroa |
| Edited by | George Amy |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | over$1 million[1] |
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the book Viva Villa! 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 film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Fay Wray.
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
Awards
The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards:[2]
- Assistant Director (John S. Waters) (winner)
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer)
- Writing (Adaptation) (Ben Hecht)
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.
See also
- Let's Go With Pancho Villa - A 1936 Mexican film about Villa
References
- ^ David Thomson, Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick, Abacus, 1993 p 181
- ^ "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
External links
- Viva Villa! at IMDb
- Viva Villa! at the TCM Movie Database
- Viva Villa! at AllMovie
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