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Viva Villa! (1934)
Director: Jack Conway
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An uncredited Howard Hawks directed some of the material in this rumbustious traversal of the Mexican revolutionary leader's rise and fall, with Beery leading from the front as future president Pancho, part moral crusader, part crazy bandito. The big MGM production typically plays fast and loose with the facts so it's as much an action spectacular as a genuine historical chronicle, but there's much good humour and a terrifically hammy death scene where one unfortunate villain is coated in honey and left under the sun for the ants.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Jack Conway
Producer: David O Selznick
Cast: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, George E Stone, Katherine DeMille full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 115 mins
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