| Villa!! | |
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| Directed by | James B. Clark |
| Screenplay by | Louis Vittes |
| Produced by | Plato A. Skouras |
| Starring | Brian Keith Cesar Romero Margia Dean Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. Carlos Múzquiz Mario Navarro |
| Cinematography | Alex Phillips |
| Edited by | Benjamin Laird |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Villa!! is a 1958 American Western film directed by James B. Clark, written by Louis Vittes, and starring Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Carlos Múzquiz and Mario Navarro. The film was released in October 1958, by 20th Century Fox.[1][2][3][4]
The film was originally called The Pancho Villa Story.[5]
The film was shot back to back with Sierra Baron in Mexico, in and around Cherabusco Studios in Mexico City.[6][7]
Pedro Armendáriz was meant to play Pancho Villa but he was replaced by Rodolfo Hoyos.[8]
Margia Dean recalled the director "was a former film editor. He’d fill the camera with pictorial things, unnatural things. Brian Keith and I had a love scene, but I had my back to him—we couldn’t look into each other's eyes. That director was shooting for the scenery. He made it uncomfortable, and thus made it hard to be convincing. I remember they built this Indian village—and a portable toilet. One fella in the cast was urinating and the thing blew away. Cesar Romero was... the only one good in the picture—I didn’t like myself or Brian Keith, but of course we had the terrible direction."[9]
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