Villa Rides (1968)

Director:

Buzz Kulik

Writers:

Robert Towne (screenplay) and
Sam Peckinpah (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

20 September 1968 (West Germany)

Genre:

War | Western

Tagline:

Villa rages! Villa lusts! Villa kills! VILLA RIDES!

Plot:

Mexican rebel Pancho Villa lead a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisonned in Mexico.

Plot Keywords:

Revolution | Pancho Villa | Mexico | Gunrunner | Mexican Revolution

Cast

Yul Brynner	...	Pancho Villa
Robert Mitchum	...	Lee Arnold
Maria Grazia Buccella	...	Fina (as Grazia Buccella)
Charles Bronson	...	Rodolfo Fierro
Herbert Lom	...	Gen. Victoriano Huerta
Robert Viharo	...	Urbina
Frank Wolff	...	Ramirez
Alexander Knox	...	President Francisco Madero
Diana Lorys	...	Emilita
Bob Carricart	...	Don Luis
Fernando Rey	...	Fuentes
José María Prada	...	Major
Antonio Ruiz	...	Juan
Jill Ireland	...	Girl in restaurant
Regina de Julián	...	Lupita

Runtime:

USA:125 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

El Casar de Talamanca, Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Sam Peckinpah wrote the original script and was set to direct, but Yul Brynner didn't like the script because it made Pancho Villa - a man who had given standing orders to shoot all prisoners - "look like a bad guy". Peckinpah was fired and his script was rewritten by Robert Towne to conform to Brynner's idea of what Villa was like.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Urbina's mouth says "Yes" at the end of the condolence scene, but there is no sound.

Quotes:

[Villa has ordered Fierro to ride in the airplane to prevent Lee from flying away]
Rodolfo Fierro: No.
Pancho Villa: What do you mean, "No"?
Rodolfo Fierro: I mean "No".
Pancho Villa: Why not?
Rodolfo Fierro: Because! Because... Because I don't think he is a good pilot!
Pancho Villa: Hmmm... You are probably right. But it doesn't matter. If he is no good, you shoot him and fly it yourself.
Rodolfo Fierro: Me?
Pancho Villa: Of course! Any child could fly one of these things.
Rodolfo Fierro: You could fly it?
[...]

Charles Bronson Fans will LOVE him in this one !!

This Movie is Great, besides the action & adventure , there are Great performances for this B movie that most of the times just keeps teeners (boys mainly) from the street en from their homework ! its also a movie that brings the child back in the Man ! However, besides that, i love this movie Mainly for the role of Charles Bronson, who as Fiero is a Hard ("bad") man who you gonna Love ! His portrayel is marvelous and funny !! and don't forget the Magnificent Soundtrack score from Maurice Jarre !!