The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36)—Spanish title La Venganza de Pancho Villa—is a compilation film made by the Padilla family in El Paso, Texas, USA, from dozens of fact-based and fictional films about the celebrated Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878–1923).
The films were stitched together with original bilingual title cards and dramatic re-enactments of Villa's assassination were added to the revised print. The Revenge of Pancho Villa provides stirring evidence of a vital Mexican American film presence during the 1910s-1930s.
In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.[1][2]
References edit
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
External links edit
- La vengenza de Pancho Villa [1] essay by Laura Isabel Serna, PhD on the National Film Registry website
- The Revenge of Pancho Villa at IMDb
- The Revenge of Pancho Villa essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, ISBN 1441120025 pages 48–51 [2]
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