Let’s Go with Pancho Villa

¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! was directed by Fernando de Fuentes and released in 1936. It is based on a novel by Rafael F. Muñoz. Six friends from the village of San Pablo, the Leones de San Pablo, join the División del Norte of Francisco Villa in 1914. After the battle of Torreón, the three survivors become Dorados, members of Villa’s elite troops.

Near the end, Villa orders Tiburcio Maya, the last of the friends still with him, to burn a sick comrade alive. Tiburcio kills the man first. Villa then tells him that he is no longer welcome in the army. Tiburcio goes back to San Pablo alone.

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