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Villa Rides (1968) was a War - Western Film directed by Buzz Kulik and produced by Ted Richmond.

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Villa Rides! (1968) with Yul Brynner

By Orson De Welles on Dec 4, 2014 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! Villa rages! Villa lusts! Villa kills! VILLA RIDES! Name a good motion picture about the Mexican Revolution.  No, I can’t really name one either.  And after watching 1968’s Villa Rides! I still can’t.  Not that Villa Rides! is a bad picture, because it isn’t. ... Read full article

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Villa Rides Quotes:

Rodolfo Fierro: Pancho. Don't argue with him. Shoot him, and let's go.
Pancho Villa: No. No, we don't do that any more.
Client in barber shop: Pretty funny games they play down there, huh?
Lee Arnold: What about Villa? Did you hear anything about him?
Client in barber shop: Yeah... Yeah, he escaped from jail in Mexico City. Huerta has practically his entire army looking for him. Must want him pretty bad, huh?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I guess he does.
Client in barber shop: Hey, Lee. Is this 'Villa' a friend of yours?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I know him.
Lee Arnold: After all you've been through, you still believe that he's for the people?
Fina: He's a good man.
Lee Arnold: How 'bout me? Am I good man, too?
Fina: Yes.
Lee Arnold: Well, I'll tell you one thing, honey: I'm as good a man as Villa, and that's not saying a hell of a lot for either one of us.
Lee Arnold: I'll fly for you, but I want something.
Pancho Villa: What?
Lee Arnold: [motions to Fierro] I want to blow his brains out.
Pancho Villa: I don't think he'll let you do that.
Lee Arnold: Well, then let these men go.
Pancho Villa: All right. How many?
Lee Arnold: How man... all of them! Their officers are dead; they can't hurt you; they don't want to fight any more.
Pancho Villa: No. Just one.
Lee Arnold: One?
Pancho Villa: One. Pick him! Go on, gringo. It's your chance to save one life. Go ahead.
Lee Arnold: [to Fierro] You pick him.
Rodolfo Fierro: [to guards] Let one go!
[they watch as one Colorado vaults the wall]
Pancho Villa: [Lee is preparing to take off] Wait. Fiero is going with you.
Lee Arnold: What? Now wait a minute, Chief. Not with... Chief, it's tough enough up there as it is.
Pancho Villa: No, if you go up there alone, you could fly away. If you try that with Fiero... Fiero will shoot you.
Lee Arnold: Oh? And without a pilot, what's Fiero gonna do?
Pancho Villa: Fiero will shoot you.
Lee Arnold: [thinks, and then grimaces]
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Villa Rides Facts
One of the extras in the film, playing a Mexican guerrilla girl, is Turkish singer Seyyal Taner. She would later receive notoriety for scoring no points in the 1987 Eurovision song contest.
First movie to star real-life husband and wife Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.
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.
This is the first movie where Charles Bronson appears with his trademark mustache.
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