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Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code Western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. Parts of the film were shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James…
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The birth of Hollywood coincided with the Mexican Revolution, allowing Californian filmmakers to draw inspiration from the events across the border, particularly those related to the larger-than-life figure of Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1878–1923), the most iconic of all revolutionary leaders. Even Villa exploited this fascination by allowing Hollywood to make a feature film starring himself for his own propaganda pu…More
