Pancho Villa

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Angelo De Pozo, Anne Francis, Chuck Connors

Not so much a spaghetti Western as a Gazpacho Western, from Spanish director Eugenio Martin, starring Telly Savalas, very funny and effective as the charismatic Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. T...( read more  read more... )he story follows Villa's campaign to overtake General Goyo and thus take over the Mexican government, along the way invading the land of the "gringos" to replenish his weapons. Largely played for laughs, Pancho Villa wanders here and there, but remains fairly entertaining throughout. Chuck Connors deserves special mention as the martinet Colonel Wilcox, who at one point has a mess tent full of officers chasing a single fly, because, you know, a dirty army is an inefficient army. Connors receives the best entrance of anyone in the film: an extreme close-up profile of his enormous chin. It's Colonel Wilcox's single-minded zeal that results in a two-train head-on collision at the film's finale that would make Gomez Addams envious. --Jim Gay

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Directed by: Angelo De Pozo, Anne Francis, Chuck Connors, Clint Walker, Eugenio Martín, José María Prada, Telly Savalas

Released: January 1, 1972

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DVD Released: April 29, 1998

 
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  • lilisrael13
    September 5, 2007
    lilisrael13
    never seen this movie but did a biography on pancho villa. this man was a soldier that did what he had to for his people.
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