The Treasure of Pancho Villa

1955
Approved
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Shelley Winters, Rory Calhoun, and Gilbert Roland in The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)

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

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

546

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Commandant
(as Carlos Mosquiz)

Tony Carbajal

Farolito
(as Tony Carvajal)

Pascual García Peña

Ricardo
(as Pasquel Pená)

Lita Baron

Birdcage Flirt in Plaza
(uncredited)

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Revolutionary
(uncredited)

Rodd Redwing

Yaqui Tracker
(uncredited)

Director
- George Sherman
Writers
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Trivia
Tom's distinctive machine gun is a Lewis gun. It was designed in the United States, but was primarily used by British forces in WW1 and WW2. It weighed 28 pounds (13 kg) and it's pan magazine on top could hold up to 97 rounds. The barrel is surrounded by a cooling shroud encasing aluminum fins that act as a heat sink. The allows Tom to fire the gun without burning his hand.

Goofs
A Coca Cola sign is seen in the background during the bank robbery. The design is from a more modern period (1940s, rather than 1915).

Quotes
Ruth Harris: Tom, how'd you ever get so good with guns?
Tom Bryan: Oh, it's a job.
Ruth Harris: I can think of a lot safer and pleasanter ones.
Tom Bryan: When you grow up in a border town a gun is the pleasantest thing there is. Every time one goes off, somebody makes money. Once I found that out, I knew I had it made.

Connections
Referenced in Screen Directors Playhouse: Cry Justice (1956)

Soundtracks
La Cucaracha
(uncredited)
Traditional
Whistled at different times by Castro and Bryan, and also performed by the passengers on the train

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Featured review

5/10

La Cucaracha

As you can gather from the title the setting for this film is the Mexican Revolution of a little over a century ago. Gilbert Roland is a commander in the service of Pancho Villa and Villa is getting rather low on funds. So he and his men which include American adventurer Rory Calhoun rob a bank and come away with a lot of gold pesos.

Roland is moved by the ideals of the revolution as is Shelley Winters an American schoolteacher. But Calhoun is looking out for number one. He's a mercenary who fights for pay and there's a lot of lucre that he and Roland have now. Winters may be a revolutionary, but Calhoun gets her mojo going.

In the end it's Calhoun and Roland against a lot of soldiers who want the gold too for various reasons.

Nice routine action film with characters we've all seen a zillion times over.