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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

Year:

2003

Duration:

112 min | Israel:110 min | Argentina:110 min | Germany:108 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | War | Western

IMDB rate:

6.6

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 8 wins & 18 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2003-09-07

Filming Locations: Guanajuato, Mexico

Cast

Actor

Character

Eion Bailey

Michael McKean

Antonio Banderas

Pancho Villa

Alan Arkin

Sam Drebben

Jim Broadbent

Harry Aitken

Matt Day

John Reed

Colm Feore

D.W. Griffith

Alexa Davalos

Teddy Sampson

Anthony Head

William Benton (as Anthony Stewart Head)

Kyle Chandler

Raoul Walsh

Saul Rubinek

Eli Morton

Cosme Alberto

Abraham Sanchez

Damián Alcázar

Gen. Rodolfo Fierro

Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz)

Fernando Becerril

Priest

Michael F. Boyle

Sgt. Edward Emerson

Steven Calcote

Reporter #1

Rita López Carrasco

Carmen

Carl Dillard

Charles Rosher

Omar Espino

Anastacio Sanchez (as Omar Éspino)

Marcelo García

Gen. Toribio Ortega

Peter Gregory

William Randolph Hearst

Adrián Hernández

Peon woman

Isaías Jiménez

Peon man

Jorge Jimenez

Gen. Hipolito Villa

Jay Kimball

W. H. Lawrence

Jake Koenig

Reporter #2

José Manuel Lambarri

Gen. José Refugio Velasco

Madeline Lee

Drebben's Mother

Benjamin Long

Duffy Dorfman

José Concepción Macías

President Victoriano Huerta

Mauricio Magaña

Older Abraham Sánchez

Barbara May

Irene Hunt

Lorena Mínguez

Peon daughter

Darrell Pritchett

Senator Albert Fall

María Guillermina Ramírez

Esperanza Sánchez

Gabriela Reynoso

Señora Madrigal

Guillermo Ríos

Federale Officer #1 (as Guillermo Rios)

Diego Sandoval

Gen. Felipe Ángeles

Patricia Schweers

Zenia the make-up lady

Julian Sedgwick

Carl von Hoffman

Sacha Oberlander Tasletikye

Adrian Brodsky

John Wharton

Hennie Ausenberg

Lilia Zelinna

Rosita

Cesar Di Parra

Harmonica Player (uncredited)

Lynnanne Zager

Actress (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The actual contract that Pancho Villa signed with Frank N. Thayer and the Mutual Film Company on 5 January 1914 to film the battle of Ojinaga still exists and is in a museum in Mexico City.

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WILHELM SCREAM: At 8:56 when Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) is looking through his binoculars at a Federale being killed by thrown dynamite.

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Pancho Villa was actually considered a "Producer" on this film by Biograph Company.

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Goofs

The screen title "May 9, 1914 - New York City" appears over a shot of Times Square. A billboard reads "The Broadway Melody - Metro Goldwyn Mayer". That studio was founded in 1924, and that movie was released in 1929.

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At the beginning of the film, Pancho Villa makes a remark about Charlie Chaplin. This scene takes place sometime between the end of 1913 and the beginning of 1914. Chaplin made his screen debut in January 1914. In any case, there's no chance that Pancho Villa would have known Chaplin's films, considering that at that time (1914) the future star was just only another Keystone employee.

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Griffith is shown to be making a short western in New York in 1914. It is a very cloudy and overcast day. In reality, Griffith has already moved his stock company out to California by then, plus he would have known not to shoot on such a cloudy day (there would not be enough light for the exposure). He also did not film any westerns in 1914, and would have been at work on The Battle of the Sexes at this time.

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Quotes

D.W. Griffith: [on Pancho Villa] He's the James Boys, he's Billy the Kid, he's Napoleon all in one.

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Pancho Villa: [to Frank, in spanish] Cover my ass.

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Pancho Villa: [after hearing a gunshot] Sometimes justice can be loud.

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