| Viva Villa! | |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway Uncredited: Howard Hawks William Wellman |
| Written by | Ben Hecht Uncredited: Howard Hawks James Kevin McGuinness Howard Emmett Rogers |
| Based on | Viva Villa! (book) by Edgecumb Pinchon O. B. Stade |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Wray Leo Carrillo |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Robert J. Kern |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,022,000[1][2] |
| Box office | $1,969,000 (worldwide rentals)[1][2] |
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American pre-Code film directed by Jack Conway and starring Wallace Beery as Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the 1933 book Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade. The film was shot on location in Mexico and produced by David O. Selznick. 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.[citation needed]
The film is a fictionalized biography of Pancho Villa starring Beery in the title role and featuring Fay Wray, who had played the leading lady in King Kong the previous year. The supporting cast includes Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Schildkraut and Katherine DeMille.
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- ^ a b Glancy, H. Mark (1992). "Appendix". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 12 (S2): 1–20. doi:10.1080/01439689208604539.