STORY OF MEXICAN WARFARE
• VIVA, VILLA,’ FOR EMPIRE Astonishing in its sweep,, colour, and dramatic action, ‘ Viva, Villa!’ which has Wallace Beery, Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo, and Fay Wray at the head of its tremendous cast, will open a. season at the Empire on Friday. This story of the niost famous bandit of the modern world, a man who had a hand in two revolutions and about whose name there clusters as many legends as those woven round Robin Hood, does not profess to bo history. It is the legendary rather than the real Pancho Villa that Metro-Gokhvyn-Meyer have brought to the screen in one of the triumphs of filmdom. _ 1 Viva, Villa!’ is ii vivid story of the rising of a people, the suffering and repression under the old Mexican regime being strikingly pictured, and the rabid, savage, and rockiest warfare of the twin campaigns being revealed in one Hashing incident after another. The tension and swiftness of the human drama being played out on one of the largest stages ever devised for a film may obscure the fact that the picture is also marked by extreme art and that the acting is brilliant.
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Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 1
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195STORY OF MEXICAN WARFARE Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 1
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