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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Drama, History, TV Movie, War, Western
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy thoughtfully staged historical dramas about the uneasy relationship between warfare, political power, and cinema.
- Tone
- epic, tense, contemplative
- Payoff
- reflection, wonder
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- revolution, propaganda, spectacle, leadership, war financing
- Setting
- early twentieth-century revolutionary era, Mexican battlefields and improvised film sets
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