| Viva Villa! | |
|---|---|
original Italian lobby card |
|
| Directed by | Jack Conway Uncredited: Howard Hawks William Wellman |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Written by | Ben Hecht Uncredited: Howard Hawks James Kevin McGuinness Howard Emmett Rogers |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Wray Leo Carrillo |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | April 10, 1934 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman also contributed uncredited directing help.
The movie is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Fay Wray. Lee Tracy was originally cast in a supporting role but was fired after allegedly urinating drunkenly off a balcony onto a Mexican military parade below. Tracy's career never fully recovered from this incident, although he did make other films, most notably Gore Vidal's The Best Man thirty years later.
It was the highest-grossing film of 1934.
Contents |
The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards:[1]
Viva Villa! partially inspired the creation of Elia Kazan's 1952 film Viva Zapata!, written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando.
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||