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Viva Villa! is a american film of genre Biography directed by Jack Conway released in USA on 27 april 1934 with Wallace Beery
Viva Villa! (1934)
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Add to a movie listViva Villa! is a 1934 American Pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the book Viva Villa!. The film was shot on location in Mexico and directed by Jack Conway. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film.
The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery, Leo Carrillo and Fay Wray. The supporting cast features Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille.
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Biographie du jeune Pancho Villa.Actors
Wallace Beery
(Pancho Villa)
Fay Wray
(Teresa)
Leo Carrillo
(Sierra)
Donald Cook
(Don Felipe de Castillo)
Stuart Erwin
(Jonny Sykes)
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