From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Let’s Go With Pancho Villa
Let’s Go With Pancho Villa
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa Plot
Villa was portrayed by Domingo Soler. Directed by Fer-
nando de Fuentes, the film tells the story of a group of
friends who hear about the revolution and Villa and de-
cide to join him, only to suffer the cruel reality of war
under the command of a Villa who simply does not care
about his men.
The movie has two endings: the original ending
shows the last surviving friend returning to his home,
disenchanted with both Villa and the Revolution.
The second ending, discovered many years later, re-
turns to the same scene ten years later, when an old and
weakened Villa tries to recruit the last survivor again;
when the father hesitates as he does not want to leave his
wife and daughter behind, Villa kills the wife and daugh-
ter. The angry father then tries to kill Villa, before anoth-
er man shoots the father dead. Villa takes the sole sur-
vivor, the son, with him.
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Background
Directed by Fernando de Fuentes
A great failure when released, interest in the movie
Produced by Alberto J. Pani resurged many decades later, and today is considered
one of the best movies of Mexican cinema both for its ap-
Written by Fernando de Fuentes
Rafael F. Muñoz proach to the theme and its technical merits.
Xavier Villaurrutia It stands apart among the many movies made about
Villa in that it portrays the man and the Revolution in its
Starring Domingo Soler
Antonio R. Frausto
cruelty; most other films, like those by Ismael Rodríguez
Ramón Vallarino in the 1960s, take an almost idyllic view of both, follow-
Manuel Tamés ing the official (government) mythos.
The movie music was composed by Silvestre Re-
Release date(s) 31 December 1936
vueltas, who makes a cameo appearance in it.
Running time 92 minutes
Country Mexico See also
Language Spanish • Cinema of Mexico
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa (Spanish: ¡Vámonos con Pancho
Villa! is a Mexican motion picture filmed in 1936.
Villa!) External links
An anti-epic based on a novel, it focuses on the cru- • Movie review (Spanish).
elty of the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa himself, • Let’s Go With Pancho Villa at the Internet Movie
contrary to most of the Mexican movies about this na- Database
tional hero.
The movie is thought to have been the first Mexican
super-production and led to the bankruptcy of the film
company that made it.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Let’s Go With Pancho Villa
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• 1936 films
• Black-and-white films
• 1930s drama films
• Mexican films
• Spanish-language films
• Films about Pancho Villa
• Mexican Revolution films
• Films directed by Fernando de Fuentes
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