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Article: HBO GETS AN INSIDE LOOK AT PANCHO VILLA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa is remembered in history as a fiery
leader of the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century.
But the general has another claim to fame: He was also the star of
Hollywood's first blockbuster action movie.
Tonight,in the HBO original movie "And Starring Pancho Villa as
Himself," Antonio Banderas will portray Villa in the true but little-
known story of how the general raised money for his insurgent army in
1913 by selling the rights to film his soldiers in action to New
Jersey-based Mutual Films.
That footage, captured in the silent film "The Life of General
Villa," was a box-office smash in 1914 and helped persuade Americans
to begin supporting the Mexican ...