Villa Rides
Villa Rides is a 1968 American Technicolor Western war film in Panavision directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Yul Brynner as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa and Robert Mitchum as an American adventurer and pilot of fortune. The screenplay is based on the biography by William Douglas Lansford. The supporting cast includes Charles Bronson as Fierro, Herbert Lom as Huerta and Alexander Knox as Madero.
Plot
Lee Arnold has to unexpectedly land his biplane in Mexico due to technical difficulties and here he hears both the Mexican army and the local peasant view on Pancho Villa: one seeing him as an outlaw, the other as a hero.
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| author | Robert Towne Sam Peckinpah |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mexico |
| director | Buzz Kulik |
| editor | David Bretherton |
| events | Mexican Revolution |
| genre | adventure western |
| keywords | arrest barbed wire barber shop capture el paso even fly game help how to kill la cucaracha married maxim gun mexican army mexico city pancho villa plane crash rescue river run set up stealing money |
| musicBy | Maurice Jarre |
| producer | Ted Richmond |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Madrid Spain |
| theme | war |