The Films of Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa was admired by some of the finest writers of the 20th century, and a surprising number wrote screenplays about him: Ben Hecht, who, with Charles MacArthur, redefined our opinion of the press with 1931’s The Front Page; Robert Towne, whose Chinatown screenplay is arguably the most important work of literature of the 1970s; Sam Peckinpah who, from The Rifleman series to 1969’s The Wild Bunch, brought a combination of reality and poetry to the West in particular and to manho