The Treasure of Pancho Villa

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

19/10/1955 1h 32m 5.8/10

Overview

In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Director

George Sherman

Top Billed Cast

Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters

Ruth Harris

Gilbert Roland

Gilbert Roland

Colonel Juan Castro

Rory Calhoun

Rory Calhoun

Tom Bryan

Joseph Calleia

Joseph Calleia

Pablo Morales

Fanny Schiller

Fanny Schiller

Laria Morales

Carlos Múzquiz

Carlos Múzquiz

Commandant (as Carlos Mosquiz)

Reviews

John Chard

3/17/2015

5/10

Muera Villa. The Treasure of Pancho Villa is directed by George Sherman and adapted to screenplay by Niven Busch from a story written by J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater. It stars Rory Calhoun, Gilbert Roland and Shelley Winters. Music is by Leith Stevens and cinematography by William Snyder. It's 1915, Mexico, and two adventurers are in the throes of revolutionary greed, loyalties and plain stubbornness... It's all rather dull, really, a film not without a good action quotient, yet it drags itself through the slumber with weak characterisations. Winters is shoehorned into the pic as a sort of love interest, but ultimately her character achieves nothing more than under developed dressage, while Calhoun and Roland are saddled with some dire passages of chatter that come off as weak willed time filler. There's some sturdy machismo on show, especially when Calhoun lets fly with his Lewis Machine Gun, the location photography at Morelos (Technicolor/SuperScope) engages the eyes, and the last hurrah battle excites, but this is one that quickly fades from memory, sadly. By this point even the buzzards have had enough... 5/10

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