Viva Villa!

[This is a contribution to the Early Hawks Blog-a-thon hosted right here at Only The Cinema. It will run from January 12 to January 23, 2009.]

Viva Villa! was a troubled production right from the start, a cheerfully ahistorical account of the life of the Mexican bandit and revolutionary Pancho Villa, undertaken with a huge cast of extras, on location in Mexico, with little regard for historical