Film about famous rebel leader
Yul Brynner stars as the famed rebel leader, Pancho Villa, and Robert Mitchum plays a gun-running aviator who joins forces with him in “Villa Rides,” the movie on Two at mid-day today. The film also stars Charles Bronson, Herbert Lorn and Jill Ireland. Born on the island of Sakhalin, east of Siberia and north of Japan, Yul Brynner acknowledged his partgypsy ancestry in the 1970 s and became active in the cause of gypsy rights. In his late teens he was a hightrapeze flyer with the Paris Cirque d’Hiver but after almost being crippled by a fall he decided to be an actor. He attended the Sorbonne and later became the protege of the actor, Michael Chekhov, who brought him to the United States in 1940 with his Shakespearian company. His big break came in 1951 when he was chosen to star in “The King and I,” the hit Broadway musical.
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Press, 5 July 1983, Page 19
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