Villa Rides - Movie Theme~Maurice Jarre

Villa rages! Villa lusts! Villa kills! VILLA RIDES!
Mexican rebel Pancho Villa lead a revolution helped by an American aviator imprisonned in Mexico

Villa Rides is a 1968 film starring Yul Brynner in toupee in the title role and Robert Mitchum as an American adventurer and pilot of fortune. The supporting cast includes Charles Bronson as Fierro, Herbert Lom as Huerta, and Alexander Knox as Madero. Sam Peckinpah wrote the original script and was set to direct, but Yul Brynner didn't like the script because it made Pancho Villa - a man who had given standing orders to shoot all prisoners - "look like a bad guy". Peckinpah was fired and his script was rewritten by Robert Towne to conform to Brynner's idea of what Villa was like.
The screenplay is based on the biography by William Douglas Lansford.

"Villa Rides" is the most accurate film depicting the life of the infamous mexican bandit, Pancho Villa. It's also filled with an all-star cast. Yul Brenner plays Villa to perfection. Charles Bronson is equally good as Villa's sidekick who spends his free time humiliating and shooting mexicans. Robert Mitchum plays a pilot who gets involved in Villa's revolution. There is a constant pace of action and good dialogue ("Go outside and die. Where are your manners?" is what Bronson says to a mexican after the mexican tries to force himself on a young girl. Bronson shoots him and kicks him out the door). The buzzing noise Mitchum's airplane makes becomes annoying throughout the film (the director's name is Buzz) and the actor who plays the mexican villain seems to be more of a Woody Allen-type character than a vicious, sadistic tyrant. He makes up for that in his final scene.

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• Peckinpah

[VinylSamuraisMusic]

Im 32 and watched this movie as a child. Great memories so i recorded it over the holidays and saved it for an occassion. That time was last night and it was just brilliant. Yul is just such a legend man. Great great great movie and not enough people know about this. Love it

[MrAustina60]

Maurice Jarre. The specialist. He manages capture whole film location/story in sound, every time. Villa, Lawrence and Shivago.

[rickbandana]

@raider9586 Are you William Douglas Lansford? It's an honor to read a comment by you! I'm sure the book is great and I'm gonna try to get it and read it.

[op4ltusn]

Grew up in Eagle Pass, Texas , Villa was every kids hero. Strange fact Pancho Villa is still my Hero and that is 55 years past.

[raider9586]

I'm glad so many people enjoyed "Villa Rides". It was fun translating my book, PANCHO VILLA, to film. I just wish that the movie had gone more deeply into the sometimes grim but always exciting events in old Pancho's life. It did satisfy a craving for action, which is what good Hollywood movies should do, but if you're interested in Mexico, Villa and the Mexican Revolution, take a look at my book. It's available at libraries and amazon.com.

[russellalmond]

Great theme, must watch this film again haven`t seen it since it cinama release

[victorgusaceanu]

Excelent music for an excelent movie!