Villa Rides

High-tension power wires are visible near Conejos just after Arnold lights his cigar.

Helicopter rotor wash visible in the trees during the Conejos cavalry charges.

Arnold & Villa share a cell, but when they emerge to the firing squad, they appear from different doors on different levels.

SPOLERThe "boy" who takes Villa's watch calls him "my General", but Villa is a colonel.

Repeated reference is made to the "Conejos hanging", but the hanging for which Villa was guilty of inaction happened in Chupadero.

There was no hanging shown or implied in Conejos.

Obvious ropes due to flying hay in the wall scene.

Urbina's mouth says "Yes" at the end of the condolence scene, but there is no sound.

Condition of the paint on the left side of the fuselage near the tail just before the flight training scene.

This film was bizarre in a sadistic way. Needless rape scene and various acts of brutal violence which didn't add to the film.

This exciting historical film about the famous Mexican patriot bandit contains a succession of fights , shootouts , pursuits , raids and breathtaking frames . The film chronicles about the title role , the Mexican bandit and guerrilla leader who flourished in the early part of the XX Century with broadened focus on the filming his feats and actual war .

So far I haven't seen one film about Pancho Villa that got it right and Villa Rides is definitely one of them. Perhaps the proposed biographical film that Johnny Depp will star in might do Villa some justice.

Get ready for a macho, macho movie! Starring Yul Brynner as Poncho Villa, Charles Bronson as his trigger-happy sidekick, and Robert Mitchum as the American accidentally caught in the middle of the Mexican Revolution, there's no room for any estrogen in this action flick!

See it – Like all good Sam Peckinpah directed films, this one is exciting from start to finish. This movie came right before he did "Wild Bunch," and you can see the similarities in the fight scenes.

"Magnificent Seven" co-stars Yul Brynner and Charles Bronson team up again as Mexican bandits-turned-freedom fighters in veteran television director Buzz Kulik's south-of-the-border epic "Villa Rides," a quasi-historical drama about Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution during the early 20th century. Robert Towne of "Chinatown" fame and Sam Peckinpah wrote the cynical, bullet-riddled screenplay based on William Douglas Lansford's entertaining biography.

First time I saw this movie I thought it was excellent, I was about twelve then. I still have a fondness for it, and will watch it whenever I find it on t.

A film with co-scriptwriters Sam Peckinpah and Robert Towne is worth a look any day. Add the cast of Yul Brynner (with hair on his head), Robert Mitchum, Charles Bronson, a sinister Herbert Lom, Fernando Rey, John Ireland's cameo in a barbershop, and the film is more than a screenplay.

"Villa Rides" is the tale of the legendary Pancho Villa, key player in the Mexican Revolution who was a bandit, to be sure, but also undeniably a true leader deeply committed to his cause. However, the tale mostly focuses on Lee Arnold (Robert Mitchum), the American pilot who is captured by Villa's forces and eventually, reluctantly becomes caught up in their mission.