Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa (Spain, UK 1971 / Director: Eugenio Martin)
- Runtime: 92 min
- Release Date: 1971 (?)
Also known as
El desafío de Pancho Villa (Spain) | I tre del mazzo selvaggio (Italy) | Drei Halleluja auf vier heiße Colts (Germany) | Pancho Villa (Germany) | Pancho Villa (U.S.A.) | Vendetta (U.S.A.) | Panço Villa (Turkey) | Pancho - banditen (Sweden) | Pancho bandiitti (Finland) | Gennimenos epanastatis (Greece) | I megali listeia tou Pancho Villa (Greece)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Telly Savalas (Pancho Villa), Clint Walker (Scotty), Anne Francis (Flo), Jose Maria Prada (Luis), Angel del Pozo (Lieutenant Eager), Luis Dávila (McDermott), Mónica Randall (Lupe), Antonio Casas (General Goyo), Alberto Dalbes (Captain Mendoza), Barta Barri (Alfonso), Chuck Connors (Colonel Wilcox), Eduardo Calvo (banker), Lucy Tiller (Villista woman), Ines Oviedo (female soldier), Dan van Husen (Bart), Norman Bailey (sheriff), Adolfo Thous (Flores), Fernando Sanchez Polack (Manuel), Lola Gaos (weeping old woman), Antonio Rossi [as Tony Ross] (photographer), Ben Tatar (Private Bates), Bob Hevelone (Evans), Art Larkin (Sergeant White), Gene Collins (Popowski), Dennis Vaughan (Captain Mettle), Hal Fletcher (Major James), Lorraine Clewes (Clara), Marjorie Neville (Eduro), Nancy Baytos (Amanda), Luis Rivera (chauffer), Ralph Neville (General Jankins), Alberto Fernandez (priest), Bud Strait (station master), Luis Marin (Villista), Tony Skios (Villista), Carl Rapp (doctor), Fernando Hilbeck (Ramon), Felipe Solano (Angel), Gerardo Navarro (Mexican diplomat), Lone Ferk (nurse), Walter Coy (General Pershing)
- Also with: Antonio Padilla (jailer), Rafael Albaicín (MP), José Aquilino Montoya (Villista), Marco Guglielmi (Villista on train), Alejandro Ulloa (Villista)
- Story: Eugenio Martin [as Gene Martin]
- Screenplay: Julian Halevy
- Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa [Technicolor - Panoramico 1,66:1]
- Music: Anton Garcia Abril
- Song: “We All End Up the Same” sung by Telly Savalas
About
Telly Savalas plays Villa in this European production about the revolutionary folk hero of early 20th century Mexico. It has all of the earmarkings of the Spanish produced and filmed westerns that accompanied the spaghetti westerns. Savalas plays the part like Kojak -- his Villa is appropriately crude, very silly and quite routine, but the lead actors are an interesting crew and a lot of mugging for the camera is done by most of them.
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- 1971
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- Eugenio Martin
- Anton Garcia Abril
- Alejandro Ulloa
- Telly Savalas
- Luis Dávila
- Chuck Connors
- Antonio Casas
- Dan van Husen
- Angel Del Pozo
- José María Prada
- Mónica Randall
- Barta Barri
- Ben Tatar
- Fernando Sánchez Polack
- Luis Rivera
- Adolfo Thous
- Rafael Albaicín
- Telly Savalas (Singer)
- Eurowestern
- Zapata Westerns