Cuando ¡Viva Villa..! es la muerte (1960)

Director:

Ismael Rodríguez

Writers:

Ismael Rodríguez (screenplay), Rafael A. Perez (collaboration),

Stars:

Pedro Armendáriz, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Carlos López Moctezuma

Cast

Cast overview:
Pedro Armendáriz	...	Pancho Villa
Alma Rosa Aguirre	...	La Adelita
Carlos López Moctezuma	...	Fierro
Humberto Almazán	...	Luisito
Elda Peralta	...	Cecilia
Fernando Wagner	...	Cain Pianni
Luis Aragón	...	Mendoza
José Chávez	...	Compadre Medina
Mauricio Garcés	...	Periodista
Jacqueline Evans	...	Sra. Pianni

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

disembodied head | assassination plot | mexican revolution | pancho villa | third in trilogy | 

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Genres:

Drama | War

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Details

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

14 July 1960 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

Il trionfo di Pancho Villa

Company Credits

Production Co:

Películas Rodríguez

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA High Fidelity)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Pancho Villa and Valentina (1960)

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Soundtracks

"La Adelita"
Public Domain

User Reviews

Becoming a Legend

This is the third of the Pancho Villa movies written, directed and produced by Ismael Rodríguez with Pedro Armendáriz starring as the shrewd, often buffoonish Mexican revolutionary general. As I have noted in my reviews for the two earlier pictures, this image of Villa was one promoted by himself and was undoubtedly very useful in keeping the loyalty of his soldiers: he presented himself as just like them, only larger, the man they would imagine themselves. But I believe it was largely a pose.

In this one, introduced, as were the previous two, by the pickled head of the dead Villa, there is a subtle change in the composition of the film. In the first, we see him in vignettes; in the second, we gradually move into a story of the passion and loyalty he inspires and in this one, encompassing his assassination, we see him definitely larger than life, a fit dead hero of the revolution and Mexico. The vignettes are also much more telling and raises this flag-waving programmer to a superior level.