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The Life of General Villa is a american film of genre Biography directed by Raoul Walsh released in USA on 9 may 1914 with Raoul Walsh
The Life of General Villa (1914)
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Add to a movie listThe Life of General Villa (1914) was a silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself, shot on location during a civil war. The movie incorporated both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution, around which the plot of the movie revolved.
The film was produced by D.W. Griffith and featured future director Raoul Walsh as the younger version of Villa. Walsh wrote extensively about the experience in his autobiography Each Man in His Time, describing Villa's charisma as well as noting that peasants would knock the teeth out of corpses with rocks in the wake of firing squads in order to harvest the gold fillings, which was captured on film and had the projectionists vomiting in the screening room back in Los Angeles.
Currently the film is presumably lost, with only unedited fragments and publicity stills known to exist.
The filming of the movie and associated events were dramatized in the film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) with Antonio Banderas starring as Villa and Kyle Chandler playing Walsh.
Synopsis
Documentaire scénarisé sur la jeunesse de Pancho Villa.Actors
Raoul Walsh
(Villa as a young man)
Teddy Sampson
(Villa's Sister)
Walter Long
(Federal Officer)
Irene Hunt
(Villa's Sister)
Spottiswoode Aitken
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