AND STARRING PANCHO VILLA AS HIMSELF

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Action
• Plot: Golden Globe nominated Antonio Banderas (Once Upon a Time In Mexico) stars in this incredible true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. The adventure gets its start when early movie giants D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore) and Harry Aiken (Jim Broadbent) send a junior executive, Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey), to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. After a string of dangerous exploits, narrow escapes and double crosses worthy of a silent action short, Thayer and Villa make their movie, and 'The Life of General Villa' is released in the U.S. to popular acclaim. The film changes the public opinion in Villa's favor and proves that 'the lens is mightier than the sword.'
• Cast: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Matt Day, Michael McKean, Colm Feore, Alexa Davalos, Anthony Head, Kyle Chandler, Saul Rubinek, Cosme Alberto, Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Fernando Becerril, Michael F. Boyle, Steven Calcote, Rita López Carrasco, Carl Dillard, Omar Espino, Marcelo García, Peter Gregory, Adrián Hernández, Isaías Jiménez, Jorge Jimenez, Jay Kimball, Jake Koenig, José Manuel Lambarri, Madeline Lee, Benjamin Long, José Concepción Macías, Mauricio Magaña, Barbara May, Lorena Mínguez, Darrell Pritchett, María Guillermina Ramírez, Gabriela Reynoso, Guillermo Ríos, Diego Sandoval, Patricia Schweers, Julian Sedgwick, Sacha Oberlander Tasletikye, John Wharton, Lilia Zelinna, Cesar Di Parra, Lynnanne Zager, Bruce Beresford, Larry Gelbart, Diane Isaacs, Sue Jett, Tony Markes, Peter James, Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka, Joseph Vitarelli
• Director: Bruce Beresford
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Mark Gordon Company, City Entertainment, HBO Home Video, HBO Films
• Media Format: Movie