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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003 · Drama · History
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33 votes
...TOO BIG FOR HOLLYWOOD...it was dramatized in the heart of Mexico, with a cast of thousands!
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
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CinemaSerf
July 18, 2025
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 country free of European domination, but he wants one that is peaceful and law-abiding, so Pancho isn’t a natural fit fo…
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