Country: US
Technical: bw 115m
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Wallace Beery, Far Wray, Leo Carrillo
Synopsis:
A humble Mexican boy avenges his father on the overseer who killed him and becomes a bandit, targeting the rich and championing the dispossessed. He cultivates relations with the press and becomes a revolutionary general, but his ruthless methods attract criticism.
Review:
Full-blooded Hollywood historicity from MGM. Both Howard Hawks and 'Wild Bill' Wellman had a hand in the picture, which was a spectacular affair, and not without its upheavals: Lee Tracy was sacked after urinating from his balcony on a government parade in Mexico City. On its own merits the film is a mess of fact and fiction, with Far Wray's character horse-whipped for not letting Villa have his way with her, and great location footage courtesy of Hawks, but no masterpiece in spite, or because of, Beery's larger than life performance.
Country: US
Technical: bw 115m
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Wallace Beery, Far Wray, Leo Carrillo
Synopsis:
A humble Mexican boy avenges his father on the overseer who killed him and becomes a bandit, targeting the rich and championing the dispossessed. He cultivates relations with the press and becomes a revolutionary general, but his ruthless methods attract criticism.
Review:
Full-blooded Hollywood historicity from MGM. Both Howard Hawks and 'Wild Bill' Wellman had a hand in the picture, which was a spectacular affair, and not without its upheavals: Lee Tracy was sacked after urinating from his balcony on a government parade in Mexico City. On its own merits the film is a mess of fact and fiction, with Far Wray's character horse-whipped for not letting Villa have his way with her, and great location footage courtesy of Hawks, but no masterpiece in spite, or because of, Beery's larger than life performance.
