And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself

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00:03:27 More, more, Mr. Walsh.
00:03:31 The last thing in the world you'd want
00:03:39 Rush to him, Miss Sampson.
00:03:41 Seek the shelter of his manly arms.
00:03:45 True love, Adrian.
00:03:46 True love laced with heartrending,
00:03:50 And cut.
00:03:53 Cut, everybody.
00:03:54 - Next setup, Charlie.
00:04:01 Go get those horses.
00:04:03 I know you're freezing. We're all freezing.
00:04:12 There he is, Frank.
00:04:15 Ask him over, gently.
00:04:20 Very good, my dear. Very good, indeed.
00:04:22 Mr. Griffith, sir...
00:04:25 Mr. Aitken's in the car.
00:04:27 - Duffy, how are we with Mr. Walsh?
00:04:30 A bit higher than usual.
00:04:32 How about there?
00:04:33 Be more generous with the blood.
00:04:36 He's over there, sir. Says that it's important.
00:04:38 When will Mr. Aitken understand
00:04:42 nothing is of greater importance to Griffith?
00:04:49 Sorry, David,
00:04:51 if you think it's worth moving at all.
00:04:53 Eli Morton in our Texas office...
00:04:56 went for some kind of press conference
00:04:59 pulled together by this Pancho Villa fellow...
00:05:01 - Villa.
00:05:02 Right. According to Eli...
00:05:04 Villa is offering exclusive rights
00:05:08 interested in filming
00:05:11 - with the vision del norte...
00:05:14 ...in action against the federal forces of,
00:05:17 the despotic President of Mexico, Victorio...
00:05:20 - Victoriano Huerta.
00:05:23 Villa's terms as follows.
00:05:25 He's asking for $25,000 in advance
00:05:29 - He wants the money in gold.
00:05:31 He's supposed to be some kind of Injun
00:05:34 He's mestizo. It's a racial mix.
00:05:36 Where'd you get all that stuff?
00:05:37 Is it worth a shot? No story, no actors.
00:05:42 - Just that, and that alone.
00:05:45 Being allowed to place cameras
00:05:47 This may prove as much a revolution
00:05:50 - as the one Villa is waging on the ground.
00:05:54 People will get sick to their stomachs
00:05:56 Hold it a minute, Harry.
00:05:58 Give her your gloves, will you?
00:06:01 Excuse me.
00:06:05 - Miss Sampson.
00:06:08 I'm Frank Thayer.
00:06:13 Mr. Griffith said that...
00:06:17 You're in charge of gloves, are you?
00:06:19 Harry, thousands of words could be used
00:06:23 But the historian's pen
00:06:25 for the image the moviemaker captures
00:06:28 20º% of the profits for some guy
00:06:31 There's not a day that passes...
00:06:33 when this guy is not featured
00:06:36 The man is a star. And stars
00:06:40 You wouldn't consider going down there
00:06:44 A bird hasn't been bought yet that
00:06:48 Be serious. If all I've got to do
00:06:53 Just how competent would you say he is?
00:06:56 You think he's ready
00:06:58 - Who? Who are we talking about?
00:07:03 Who, Frank?
00:07:05 Anyone else bidding on the rights?
00:07:06 - Hand me those.
00:07:09 Any other movie companies
00:07:13 We got the inside track.
00:07:15 Money does a whole lot of talking
00:07:18 - and the heavier it is, the better it's heard.
00:07:21 You gotta keep your wits about you
00:07:23 - Yes, sir.
00:07:25 When you meet him,
00:07:28 You forget that,
00:07:31 And making any sudden moves
00:07:33 that's another real good way
00:07:36 When do we actually meet? What's the plan?
00:07:38 Villa calls the shots.
00:07:40 Gotta work out how to slip over the border
00:07:44 We have to be smuggled into Mexico?
00:07:47 There ain't no "we" in that equation,
00:07:49 Eli Morton has got a wife and kids
00:07:55 - That's not gunfire, is it?
00:07:58 Let's get you boys a ringside seat
00:08:06 Come on up.
00:08:07 The chairs are in there. Come on, fellows.
00:08:11 Let's go up to the front, come on.
00:08:14 Let's go right up here. Excuse us for a sec.
00:08:16 Colonel, how're you doing?
00:08:18 These guys are from back East.
00:08:21 Come here, step right up.
00:08:23 There you go.
00:08:36 Thank you.
00:08:48 Feels almost like watching a show
00:08:52 Well, it's a bit more than playacting, sir.
00:08:54 What you're watching is a dictatorship
00:08:58 Yielding up one life at a time.
00:09:02 John Reed, Metropolitan magazine.
00:09:04 Frank Thayer, Mutual Film Company.
00:09:07 You're taking the bait, Mr. Thayer?
00:09:10 I'm going to try.
00:09:11 Have a peek at your picture show.
00:09:31 - It's my turn.
00:09:37 Look at that. To your left.
00:09:40 Hope you don't have any stock
00:09:43 Oh, God.
00:09:45 Shows you what Pancho Villa thinks
00:09:49 The bastard doesn't care
00:09:54 There he is.
00:11:11 What's he doing?
00:11:29 - It's off to bed, fellows.
00:11:31 - Get some sleep.
00:11:42 Wait. I've never been on a horse.
00:11:45 You will like it.
00:11:49 Come on.
00:12:35 He wants to know why the movies
00:12:38 He wants to know was Charlie Chaplin
00:12:42 - He wants to know...
00:12:45 Only, he's kind of involved right now.
00:12:47 And this guy's
00:12:59 He says he don't trust nobody
00:13:03 I was told that he would kill a man
00:13:05 That's a pile of crap. They don't stop
00:13:13 - What's that all over your tie?
00:13:17 My college's.
00:13:24 To which college do you go?
00:13:26 Did, sir. Harvard in Boston.
00:13:29 Sí. That's the school
00:13:33 A few have attended, yes, sir.
00:13:35 One day...
00:13:36 Pancho Villa will send his son
00:13:48 He says he's knocked out enough sons
00:13:55 Is that the gold?
00:13:56 Cash would have been a whole lot lighter,
00:14:00 The last person who tried to give him cash,
00:14:06 - Your contrato?
00:14:10 Those are the glasses.
00:14:14 One for you, one for me.
00:14:28 Those actresses you work with,
00:14:31 They got to have it all the time, don't they?
00:14:33 I'm not sure that's really true.
00:14:35 Yeah, right. Like you're not
00:14:44 What?
00:14:49 What's this 10º% of the profits bullshit?
00:14:52 You lie to Pancho Villa,
00:14:55 Sir, that is a mistake. Somebody must have
00:15:04 It's just my pen.
00:15:07 El plumo, or whatever you call it.
00:15:11 Let me change all these 10s here
00:15:16 Here we are. Fixed.
00:15:19 20º%, 20º%, 20º%, 20º% .
00:15:21 See, you gotta understand.
00:15:24 With Wilson's goddamn embargo...
00:15:26 you gotta go the black-market route
00:15:28 It costs an arm and a leg
00:15:36 No, please.
00:15:40 This pen has gone to college.
00:15:43 It's for your son. Any of your sons.
00:15:49 But your Señor Hearst...
00:15:52 he only writes bad words about Pancho Villa
00:15:55 In his newspapers.
00:15:58 People, I think...
00:16:00 they believe more what they see
00:16:04 When your President Wilson
00:16:09 he will know he must support Pancho Villa.
00:16:11 He will see that Pancho Villa is a good guy.
00:16:14 That he's not like Presidente Huerta.
00:16:18 - That donkey fucker.
00:16:34 I hope he's not gonna be offended.
00:16:37 Don't worry about it.
00:16:41 You are Frank.
00:16:42 - That's your name?
00:16:45 Pancho is also Frank. Pancho is Francisco.
00:16:49 That's his real moniker.
00:16:54 Tell me, what would you like,
00:16:58 Lemon, vanilla.
00:17:09 Thank you.
00:17:14 I've never seen anyone like him.
00:17:16 There is nobody like him, sonny boy.
00:17:18 If there was, he would blow their brains out.
00:17:24 - How do we do this?
00:17:27 Besides praying a lot.
00:17:28 I think you all just fan out.
00:17:33 Other than bullets, you mean.
00:17:41 Those crazy bastards are not gonna last
00:17:52 Gentlemen, the Mutual Film Company
00:17:56 Thanks to an exclusive arrangement
00:17:59 who joins such illustrious Mutual artists...
00:18:02 as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford,
00:18:05 the public will, for the very first time...
00:18:07 be treated to the thrills and chills
00:18:11 as seen through the lens
00:18:37 Are you worried about the physical danger
00:18:40 Gen. Villa has assigned
00:18:44 that's D-O-R-A-D-O-S...
00:18:47 to guarantee the safety of each
00:18:50 Set up in the doorway. Hurry!
00:18:54 Turn around and film the gunner.
00:19:05 Sir, you must be really devoted
00:19:09 For $1,000 a month, there's nothing
00:19:13 Plus all the gold teeth I can pull.
00:19:16 Watch your ass, sonny boy.
00:19:23 Another day, another dollar.
00:19:33 Hearst Publications.
00:19:35 You don't have any qualms
00:19:38 in favor of a man
00:19:41 nothing more than a socialist rabble-rouser?
00:19:43 Unlike your employer Mr. Hearst...
00:19:45 this company has no interest whatever
00:19:49 foreign or domestic.
00:19:51 For the millions he's trying to free
00:19:55 Pancho Villa hardly needs Mutual's help...
00:19:57 to enhance his reputation
00:20:24 Bloody hell!
00:20:30 Francisco, you're not dead yet?
00:20:32 Still alive, sir.
00:21:31 These are just civilians, aren't they?
00:21:35 Yeah. You make the mistake
00:21:38 you wind up being a tree ornament.
00:22:10 Saves ammunition.
00:22:13 That one's mine.
00:22:25 Next patient.
00:23:20 The kid's gonna have a playmate soon.
00:23:34 - That figures.
00:23:36 The Father's the father.
00:23:43 He's swearing to take care of the kid
00:24:17 Hi, Charlie.
00:24:21 Good work, Frank.
00:24:24 Thank you, Hennie.
00:24:26 And how did it feel today, Mr. Thayer?
00:24:29 Being smack in the middle
00:24:32 It's shameful to admit
00:24:36 That's strictly a survivor's sensation.
00:24:38 Someone else's death
00:24:42 You're in good company, Mr. Thayer.
00:24:44 Shamelessness has a big following
00:24:48 Bank robbers, painters, poets,
00:24:53 Enough anarchists to blow up Wall Street
00:24:56 Healing Jews and fighting Jews.
00:24:57 Maurice Grossbaum,
00:25:00 Sam Drebben,
00:25:05 Gen. Ángeles came over from the Federales.
00:25:08 Studied von Clausewitz,
00:25:12 He's the other side of the peso
00:25:15 He gets really ugly unless he kills
00:25:19 From the merely curious
00:25:23 All of this on Villa's order.
00:25:25 All of this in Villa's thrall.
00:25:54 You take home a nice recuerdo,
00:25:58 But be careful...
00:26:00 should they give you some crawly souvenir
00:26:19 Her husband got killed in the fighting today.
00:26:23 And her youngest son, too.
00:26:28 Get this.
00:26:37 He just gave her more money
00:26:43 What will they think, my American friends...
00:26:46 when they see the movie of Pancho Villa?
00:26:49 I think Mr. Doheny
00:26:58 He worships the ground that is Mexico.
00:27:00 Doheny worships what's underneath it.
00:27:03 Your Señor Hearst
00:27:08 Very nervous.
00:27:10 You know how much
00:27:12 Señor Hearst. You know how many acres?
00:27:16 More like 8 million.
00:27:18 8 million acres?
00:27:20 How many head of cattle
00:27:24 You are loco, Juanito. 60,000.
00:27:27 50,000, maybe. Maybe 50,000 at most.
00:27:34 So, Francisco, today was not too...
00:27:39 - Boring.
00:27:43 You became more a man a little,
00:27:46 - Maybe you and your amigos...
00:27:50 Today I think they found,
00:27:55 Even though a few of them got a little wet.
00:27:57 Yes.
00:28:12 You will help.
00:28:20 You'll help Americans know
00:28:23 It's my Virgin of Guadalupe.
00:28:27 I'm deeply honored, sir.
00:28:30 He says you should be.
00:28:35 You've got the only virgin left around here.
00:28:51 Please bear in mind
00:28:54 had to constantly deal
00:28:57 exploding bombs, clouds of gunpowder.
00:29:01 But what you're looking at is,
00:29:03 never-before-seen footage of live action
00:29:08 Never-before-seen footage?
00:29:17 They'd have bit the dust a lot better
00:29:22 Let me assure you that every one
00:29:26 died in the very best way that they could.
00:29:32 There he is, boys, on motion-picture film
00:29:35 Gen. Pancho Villa.
00:30:07 Despite its technical flaws...
00:30:09 clearly more people
00:30:11 from a few feet of this crude, historic film...
00:30:13 than from the reams that are written
00:30:16 to rid Mexico of its greedy robber barons...
00:30:19 the only ones to profit
00:30:22 with rapacious American interests.
00:30:24 Unfortunately, not everyone happens to be
00:30:29 Hearst, no surprise,
00:30:32 Pardon me.
00:30:34 With all he's got invested in Mexico...
00:30:36 Hearst stands to lose
00:30:39 Speak up, Harry.
00:30:43 Listen to this:
00:30:44 "Pandering to Villa's overblown vanity...
00:30:46 "the perpetrators
00:30:49 "...clearly demonstrate
00:30:52 "in selling tickets to a gullible public...
00:30:54 "than in telling the real truth..."
00:30:56 I'll take the pastrami on rye.
00:30:57 "...the real truth
00:31:00 "and his ragtag army with nary
00:31:03 lt'd be more productive
00:31:06 You know what's so galling about all this?
00:31:09 We had so little control
00:31:11 Villa comes off as some kind of simple,
00:31:14 Give me the strudel.
00:31:16 We didn't offer a clue to his complexity,
00:31:19 What a movie that would make.
00:31:20 This would all be better said
00:31:26 He's been beaten and tortured all his life.
00:31:29 They say that he still has whip scars
00:31:32 He was a convict before he turned 20.
00:31:34 It's midnight.
00:31:35 Before he was 12,
00:31:38 Now there are places in Mexico
00:31:41 Don't make me fire you twice in one week.
00:31:43 He's the James Boys, he's Billy the Kid,
00:31:47 all rolled into one.
00:31:48 But he asks nothing for himself.
00:31:52 He builds schools where there were none.
00:31:56 He redistributes the land.
00:31:59 He even prints his own money.
00:32:02 Prints his own money?
00:32:04 Tell me that this material would not make
00:32:08 Forget it. The Times said the one we made...
00:32:11 Iooked like a high-school play
00:32:14 For my money, and that's sure as hell
00:32:18 we gave Pancho Villa more than his shot.
00:32:20 - But we didn't. That's the whole point.
00:32:24 You'd never crowd all that stuff
00:32:28 I'd make it more like seven.
00:32:30 - Seven reels?
00:32:33 Did you smoke some of that funny stuff
00:32:36 Who in their right minds...
00:32:38 is gonna wanna sit through a movie
00:32:41 There's never a first until someone tries.
00:32:44 Don't give me fortune cookies
00:32:48 And seven reels is a whale of a show...
00:32:50 you're ready to give away
00:32:53 Then double it.
00:32:57 Double it?
00:33:00 - A dime a ticket?
00:33:02 One good first deserves another.
00:33:06 - These are exciting thoughts, Frank.
00:33:10 - I'm definitely getting excited.
00:33:16 If only they didn't all look
00:33:19 For 10 cents,
00:33:22 than a bunch of barefoot buggers
00:33:25 We can help them look better.
00:33:28 I have to run this past D.W., of course.
00:33:31 He'll see the possibilities in a minute.
00:33:34 The Life of General Villa.
00:33:59 Okay.
00:34:29 Hey, you moron, watch the vase!
00:37:43 - Hello, sir.
00:37:47 - Do I know you were coming?
00:37:50 When I see it, then I will know you are here.
00:37:54 - I missed you many times, mi amigo.
00:37:57 Yeah, good. Bueno.
00:37:59 The Virgin, does she answer your prayers?
00:38:03 Not with my Spanish, she doesn't.
00:38:05 It's not Spanish. Never Spanish. Mexicano.
00:38:09 There are two things
00:38:13 the church and the weapon.
00:38:18 You should write a book.
00:38:20 Maybe I have to read one or two first.
00:38:33 This is the battle?
00:38:38 So much there.
00:38:41 Two little circles.
00:38:44 Magic.
00:38:48 Tomorrow, we must liberate
00:38:51 Tell me are you hungry, thirsty?
00:38:55 House of great wealth.
00:38:56 Not one drop of ice cream.
00:39:07 If my father saw us here,
00:39:12 Before your head grows a boot.
00:39:16 A room like this.
00:39:18 Such a room could be only for a don.
00:39:22 Or for a foreigner.
00:39:29 Into a room like this,
00:39:32 to beg for some food for himself,
00:39:38 There are books here
00:39:46 Welcome back to Mexico.
00:40:06 - Are you all right, Francisco?
00:40:09 Is the horse riding you well?
00:40:13 You did not come all this way...
00:40:16 - only to bring me my film, right?
00:40:25 Another movie? You want to make
00:40:28 Yes, sir. Same deal as last time.
00:40:33 Your President Wilson
00:40:37 Money is not a problem
00:40:41 Tell me, has there ever been
00:40:45 No, not that I know of. No, sir.
00:40:48 Not one movie of Don Quixote?
00:40:51 And Señor Aitken wants to make
00:40:53 We believe that this story, this photoplay...
00:40:57 will greatly enhance your popularity...
00:40:59 and it's gonna go a long way
00:41:02 You still have a lot of enemies
00:41:05 Yeah. That's the best place for enemies,
00:41:10 You'd be doing me a very big favor.
00:41:13 Remember Don Quixote, mi amigo.
00:41:18 A man must not fight windmills.
00:41:29 Villa positively not interested.
00:41:32 Returning New York immediately.
00:41:34 Awfully sorry. Did my level best.
00:41:37 Frank N. Thayer.
00:41:39 "N" for "nephew."
00:42:10 You're welcome.
00:42:12 Don't give me that happy-peon lark.
00:42:16 You and the other bloody bandidos...
00:42:18 think you can just ride off here
00:42:22 No.
00:42:24 Soldiers of Pancho Villa are no bandidos.
00:42:31 You've been robbing me blind
00:42:34 Five thousand head of my cattle...
00:42:36 and not so much as
00:42:38 Thank you very much.
00:42:40 These tinhorn bean-ocrats down here
00:42:44 But you've finished shitting
00:44:26 Did you read Hearst today?
00:44:29 I've got it right here.
00:44:31 "The cold-blooded murder in Mexico
00:44:35 "that was the latest example of the socialist
00:44:40 "reinforces the Hearst
00:44:42 "that the civilized nations of the world
00:44:46 "to introduce the self-styled General
00:45:41 Mr. Aitken.
00:46:07 Does the General have any questions?
00:46:09 The General has no questions.
00:46:11 "Whenever engaging the enemy,
00:46:14 - That's you, sir.
00:46:18 "...you guarantee that any fighting
00:46:21 "will occur only between the daylight hours
00:46:26 Agreed.
00:46:28 "There is to be
00:46:30 "and the Mutual Company," that's us...
00:46:33 "is to be informed and consulted...
00:46:35 "as to the nature
00:46:37 Sí, cut, print, iris in, iris out, pan...
00:46:44 Very good, sir.
00:46:46 "In the event that a major exchange
00:46:49 "you will agree to restage such battles,
00:46:53 "for the benefit
00:46:55 "For its part, the Mutual Company
00:47:09 Problem?
00:47:10 He wants to make sure
00:47:14 No Francisco, no Francisco.
00:47:18 I promise you, General...
00:47:20 this fine young man is gonna be with you
00:47:24 Whatever you need, whatever you want,
00:47:27 Every bit as he's gonna be mine.
00:47:32 It's right here, sir.
00:47:37 $25,000, as before.
00:47:40 I take it we have a deal, sir.
00:47:46 The soldiers of Pancho Villa...
00:47:48 have left behind many huérfanos y viudas.
00:47:53 Lots of widows and orphans.
00:47:54 He's up to his ass in them.
00:47:56 They are very sad. They're very poor.
00:47:59 The General is most sensitive.
00:48:04 A leader must be muy sensitive.
00:48:11 You must give to Pancho Villa,
00:48:15 after the Revolution...
00:48:20 - A print?
00:48:24 He wants his own print.
00:48:26 I think he wants to have
00:48:30 Pancho Villa, too, needs nickels.
00:48:34 Many nickels for those who lost so much...
00:48:37 and for those who lost so many.
00:48:41 I will be very happy to write that
00:48:47 No es necesario, my good sir.
00:48:50 For Pancho Villa, your hand is your word.
00:48:56 Certainly. Of course.
00:49:00 It's my pleasure, sir.
00:49:59 - Hiya, Duffy.
00:50:02 - Everything okay? Nice to see you.
00:50:05 Hi, Charlie, how are you?
00:50:10 - Where's the Scotch, Frank?
00:50:13 I see you've got gloves this time.
00:50:16 - Welcome to Mexico.
00:50:25 Gen. Villa...
00:50:27 please allow me to introduce our director.
00:50:31 This is Mr. William Christy Cabanne.
00:50:33 I am so looking forward, sir.
00:50:37 And this is Miss Teddy Sampson
00:50:44 And this is Miss Irene Hunt
00:50:55 And Charlie Rositer of course you know
00:50:58 Are your huevos all dry now, Charlie?
00:51:01 For the moment.
00:51:05 And this, sir, is Mr. Raoul Walsh.
00:51:08 General.
00:51:09 He'll be playing the young Pancho Villa.
00:51:12 Tell me, Raoul Walsh...
00:51:14 you know even
00:52:24 You can be me.
00:52:26 Okay, Carl, camera. And action.
00:52:33 And say goodbye, Mom.
00:52:35 Very nice, yes.
00:52:40 And lovely. Okay.
00:52:43 And it's farewell, Pancho. Let's go.
00:52:46 And he goes.
00:52:51 And cut! Okay.
00:52:54 Very nice.
00:52:56 Little more of a routine goodbye, Raoul.
00:53:00 Listen, your character
00:53:02 what tragic events the day's gonna bring.
00:53:05 - So keep it big, make it small, okay?
00:53:08 Adrian, give me a wee bit less.
00:53:11 - Okay?
00:53:12 Uno más, people.
00:53:14 As pronto as possible por favor, makeup.
00:53:18 - I was just thinking that maybe...
00:53:22 Let's just make a movie here.
00:53:24 That's enough, okay?
00:53:28 He's fine. Leave him alone.
00:53:29 - Carl, crank them.
00:53:33 And from the kiss, por favor.
00:53:35 And action.
00:53:38 Much better. And sis...
00:53:41 Lovely.
00:53:43 Okay, and farewell, Pancho.
00:53:45 Off he goes. Goodbye, Pancho.
00:53:48 That's good.
00:53:52 Fond!
00:53:54 You love them. Good.
00:53:57 And, perfect!
00:53:59 Cut, print. Beautiful!
00:54:01 Next setup.
00:54:03 "Unquestionably the most expensive and
00:54:08 So reads
00:54:11 An unprecedented seven 15-minute reels...
00:54:14 two of which will be filmed
00:54:17 for which Villa's forces are now preparing.
00:54:24 Mutual Company promises
00:54:27 devoted to a specially written photoplay:
00:54:29 The Factual Story
00:54:36 Every page is a page of lies.
00:54:42 I don't understand.
00:54:43 Mierda means "shit."
00:54:45 I know that.
00:54:48 "Pancho Villa becomes an outlaw when
00:54:53 The land of Pancho Villa's father
00:54:56 Mr. Aitken feels that's more colorful.
00:54:59 It is a license to lie!
00:55:01 - You don't understand.
00:55:04 I understand that never does Pancho Villa...
00:55:06 want the world to see his sister Mariana
00:55:10 But that's what turned you into a rebel.
00:55:13 I know why I became what I became.
00:55:15 Pancho Villa does not have to see a movie
00:55:23 Presidente Villa.
00:55:24 From where does this fantasía come?
00:55:27 You have learned nothing from Juan Reed.
00:55:29 - There will never be a Presidente Villa.
00:55:33 The Revolución
00:55:36 - not the ambition of Pancho Villa.
00:55:48 Okay, we can make it a dream sequence.
00:55:51 Pancho Villa's dream...
00:55:52 is for a man of education
00:55:55 Your Presidente Wilson,
00:55:59 Pancho Villa is a professor
00:56:02 See, that's exactly what General Grant was,
00:56:08 That drunk dogface.
00:56:10 He killed Mexicanos
00:56:13 I had no idea.
00:56:14 No, in your history books
00:56:19 He came before there was oil to steal.
00:56:21 He came for the gold. He came for the silver.
00:56:25 You want to shoot the battle of Torreón,
00:56:29 You don't shoot the life of Pancho Villa
00:56:32 Mutual has a fortune sunk into this.
00:56:35 Lies are expensive, Francisco.
00:56:39 Señor Aitken, he tells to the world
00:56:45 Esta basura! This is fake garbage!
00:56:55 May I ask you, sir...
00:56:58 did you murder William Benton?
00:57:09 I don't believe you did.
00:57:11 But a hell of a lot of your enemies...
00:57:12 are trying to convince
00:57:16 If you can believe Jack Reed...
00:57:18 there are plans in the works
00:57:21 Plans to invade Mexico
00:57:25 Plans to finish you off, knock you off,
00:57:31 You have to understand...
00:57:33 that this is the kind of story
00:57:37 When they go to the movies,
00:57:40 They give you what you want.
00:57:42 And what you want is something
00:57:47 Their approval.
00:57:52 I think every time you see me...
00:57:56 you grow one more huevo, Francisco.
00:58:08 And dismount, Raoul.
00:58:10 Everyone dismount.
00:58:14 And run to greet them.
00:58:16 Welcome your hubbies home.
00:58:20 Ladies, come on.
00:58:22 Let's go, ladies!
00:58:25 Come on.
00:58:31 Mr. Cabanne.
00:58:32 Can I get some hugs and kisses here?
00:58:40 Ladies, come on.
00:58:43 Sweet Jesus! Cut!
00:58:45 That's a cut, everybody.
00:58:47 It's just not in their nature.
00:58:49 Shy? They are as wooden
00:58:51 Most of them are fucking Indians.
00:58:54 Give me five minutes.
00:59:10 Come on, let's go.
00:59:15 And dismount, Raoul.
00:59:20 - And cue the ladies.
00:59:40 He has his own train.
00:59:43 It's just one more thing
00:59:46 Fitted out a few hospital cars to take care
00:59:52 Like a city on wheels.
00:59:54 I walked it the other day.
01:00:02 - Hiya, fellows.
01:00:04 Hello there.
01:00:07 These are the Sanchez brothers.
01:00:13 Ever paralyze anybody in Spanish before?
01:00:18 So this will be the lab.
01:00:22 This is the editing room.
01:00:24 We can watch our own dailies...
01:00:25 which I think will make a real difference
01:00:30 Going on and on, aren't I?
01:00:33 - You've changed down here.
01:00:35 When I first met you,
01:00:41 I never once had that problem with you.
01:00:45 I gathered.
01:00:48 Guess I was fairly obvious.
01:00:50 Girls don't mind that one bit.
01:01:08 - What have we got here, boss?
01:01:12 Civil War surplus?
01:01:14 Yeah, Aitken got a good deal on it.
01:01:17 You don't think these guys are gonna mind?
01:01:20 - Dressing up like the losing side.
01:01:44 Pretty impressive.
01:01:45 French, 75 mm. Perfect for the job.
01:02:04 Really! Mary Pickford doesn't take this long
01:02:07 Mary Pickford isn't running a revolution
01:02:10 Don't think she couldn't.
01:02:12 Here we go.
01:02:16 How do I look?
01:02:34 You're weary, General.
01:02:37 Trappings of power mean nothing to you.
01:02:40 Your every goal has been achieved.
01:02:43 You've avenged your family.
01:02:45 You've righted the wrongs
01:02:48 Many lives have been sacrificed...
01:02:50 but in the end, you have
01:02:57 But the work of a president is never done.
01:03:00 Lawrence.
01:03:04 And return to your desk, General.
01:03:08 Pick up the pen...
01:03:10 and sign the document.
01:03:13 Good.
01:03:15 Lawrence, take the paper and leave.
01:03:21 And now the weariness returns.
01:03:26 Can you give me a sigh, General?
01:03:38 Beautiful.
01:03:40 And now your speech.
01:03:41 Into the camera...
01:03:43 into the lens that is the eye
01:04:26 Chapeau to you, sir. One take.
01:04:32 Is there anything the man cannot do?
01:04:38 It is easy to be president in a movie.
01:04:41 In a movie, Pancho Villa could be the Pope.
01:04:45 In the end, there will be other better men
01:04:50 And you'll do what? Surely not retire?
01:04:53 I think the government would open a factory
01:04:59 Pancho Villa, his hands filled with leather.
01:05:02 Pancho Villa's hands are leather.
01:05:05 And you would settle for just doing that?
01:05:08 That and watch that Mexico
01:05:11 another star on the flag of your country.
01:05:14 And what about you?
01:05:18 What Pancho Villa wants...
01:05:21 for himself?
01:05:27 A parade when he dies.
01:05:31 A parade, many tears, and many flowers.
01:05:36 For the children to miss his candy.
01:05:40 A funeral...
01:05:43 with many poets and singing.
01:05:46 And at the end, a tomb.
01:05:49 A big tomb...
01:05:51 where they can come...
01:05:55 where people can come,
01:06:00 will be always there for them.
01:06:06 Always.
01:06:54 You know, I wrote this scene in my head...
01:06:57 the very first time I laid eyes on you.
01:07:00 Was I okay?
01:07:02 You want to try one more take?
01:07:05 Is it too soon?
01:07:07 I don't know. Maybe not.
01:07:13 I'm sure not.
01:07:18 "Onward and upward" is the ticket.
01:07:29 Tomorrow we leave...
01:07:32 to begin the last chapter of the Revolución.
01:08:02 Bravo, General.
01:08:10 You have much to film in the battle,
01:08:14 - The battle, sir?
01:08:18 I won't be going with you.
01:08:20 No, I finished my part in this film.
01:08:22 I'm going to New Jersey.
01:08:24 To start a new one.
01:08:26 Really. You can call my agent.
01:08:29 Excuse me, Gen. Villa.
01:08:32 Me, I don't go, sir.
01:08:43 You, too? You're not going?
01:08:46 No, sir, my work's through here.
01:08:49 Only the camera operators are going.
01:08:56 - What's happening?
01:09:05 Oh, my God!
01:09:08 Calling for a firing squad.
01:09:23 Here, Pancho Villa is the director.
01:09:26 Here Pancho Villa says
01:10:07 Now you know
01:10:29 Will you take this?
01:10:40 Too bad them actresses don't do no jazzing.
01:11:09 The hell they are!
01:11:14 Put the gun away.
01:11:22 General, these boys
01:11:24 and now you're turning them into soldiers?
01:11:36 You can't.
01:11:37 Is this what you want
01:11:40 Schools for only some,
01:11:54 One boy for you, one boy for Villa.
01:11:57 How can anyone possibly make that choice?
01:12:33 That one for you. I'll take the winner.
01:13:42 Now we find the end of the shots.
01:14:44 Close your stinking mouth.
01:15:57 - You remember our agreement.
01:16:11 All right, got your cameras?
01:16:28 Ready?
01:16:43 Everyone ready?
01:16:45 Start cranking!
01:16:48 And action!
01:17:23 Keep firing.
01:18:43 Come here.
01:18:45 In the center in the valley of Torreón...
01:18:49 is the armory of Huerta.
01:18:51 Enough guns for Pancho Villa
01:18:56 At Torreón...
01:18:57 Pancho Villa will give his General Ángeles
01:19:01 the mucho boom-boom.
01:19:05 Excuse me, sir.
01:19:08 You're attacking from here. This is the east?
01:19:11 You're firing at the Federales from the east?
01:19:13 Is there any special reason
01:19:16 Sí. Because it's mine.
01:19:20 What?
01:19:23 Your camera's going to shoot
01:19:26 Your lenses are not strong enough.
01:19:28 Nowhere near enough, no, sir.
01:19:30 Maybe you can move the cameras
01:19:31 This way the sun can come across.
01:19:34 Or...
01:19:36 Or what?
01:19:39 Could you change your attack
01:19:42 instead of the east?
01:19:45 That would give us so much better a picture.
01:20:11 We kill them all your way.
01:21:30 Action, Señor Griffith.
01:21:33 Action.
01:25:45 The thing is, it's always easier for an army
01:25:49 than it is for one to take it.
01:25:51 I suppose you're right. Took the Turks
01:26:20 What's this?
01:26:22 If we fight the Federales for 1,000 years
01:26:25 unless we fight them this way.
01:26:27 By day we can win the battle,
01:26:31 But you always must've known that.
01:26:33 In the dark I can smell the Federales' fear.
01:26:35 With fear comes defeat.
01:26:37 You never really intended
01:26:40 My only contract is honored with Mexico.
01:26:44 There's no choice.
01:26:45 It's better for me to lose the movie
01:27:21 What the hell was in there?
01:27:23 The Federales hide their ammunition
01:27:26 This way they go to heaven faster.
01:27:29 Plenty of light now, Francisco.
01:29:53 - Hello, sonny boy.
01:29:56 Take some of this.
01:29:58 Thanks.
01:30:10 Frigging rainwater.
01:30:12 That's all there is.
01:30:14 If you ask me, cows have been pissing in it.
01:30:20 Hell of a show the boss put on last night.
01:30:23 I didn't get one foot of it.
01:30:25 There are those days, kid.
01:30:30 - Sorry, Sam.
01:30:33 You can take a Jew apart,
01:30:37 Used to aggravate the hell out of my mother.
01:30:40 There's a law, you know.
01:30:42 Anybody with a tattoo, no Jewish cemetery
01:30:46 As if it's gonna bother somebody
01:30:52 I can't tell you how happy
01:31:39 Charlie, set up fast.
01:31:41 This is the scene we missed at Ojinaga.
01:32:45 My God.
01:32:48 How could you?
01:32:51 Don't speak to me of God.
01:32:54 God has never been to Mexico!
01:32:57 If he has been, he has a heart of stone!
01:33:18 Go home, Frank.
01:33:22 All of you!
01:33:28 Go where to be born is to be equal.
01:33:31 The children of Mexico are not yet so lucky.
01:34:02 Mr. Walsh.
01:34:03 One more!
01:34:06 Very still, now. Very still.
01:34:12 As far as I'm concerned,
01:34:15 I can imagine the time...
01:34:17 when a 5-reel picture was...
01:34:19 It's not gonna be an easy thing to see
01:34:31 Good evening.
01:34:32 Nice to see you again.
01:34:34 Good evening.
01:34:37 Onward and upward. That's the ticket.
01:39:34 Jack.
01:39:38 I want you to know
01:39:42 It means a lot to me
01:39:46 I understand the difficulty
01:39:49 who mows down widows in cold blood.
01:39:53 I even understand the commercial need
01:40:00 Or passing off whores as loving wives.
01:40:04 Barefoot peasants who are
01:40:06 only after they've been properly dressed
01:40:10 It's a process of evolution.
01:40:13 It's the movie's turn to make truth
01:40:17 - Is there a second?
01:40:22 Why did he kill her, Jack?
01:40:24 So coldly, so brutally.
01:40:28 It's as though
01:40:33 You know what it is
01:40:36 "Let me make everything that's wrong
01:40:40 "Let me carry you all on my shoulders"?
01:40:44 Eventually you begin to resent the weight.
01:40:47 You'd never know that from the movie
01:40:50 Well, you'll find a way to live with yourself.
01:40:54 You'll find a way to live with Pancho, too.
01:40:57 You used each other, Frank.
01:41:02 Together you proved that the lens...
01:41:04 is a hell of a lot mightier than the sword.
01:41:40 Hey, sonny boy!
01:41:47 Sam Drebben.
01:41:50 My God.
01:41:52 Sit 'im here. Park it.
01:42:00 Yeah, careful, sweetheart.
01:42:02 She's got a bladder like a faucet.
01:42:04 Watch what you say.
01:42:09 Yeah, right, Ma.
01:42:12 - ice cream.
01:42:15 Shades of Pancho Villa.
01:42:17 She's tougher, believe me.
01:42:20 Got too good a look at a Federale bayonet.
01:42:24 - You don't still work for him, do you?
01:42:29 Funny guy, Pancho.
01:42:32 He said Moses should have used me
01:42:36 Wrote it with your pen, too.
01:42:39 He was pretty browned off with you guys.
01:42:43 Jack Reed said that
01:42:47 that Washington held off the idea
01:42:50 Be that as it may, you welshed on him.
01:42:52 when you promised him
01:42:55 - And the orphans, remember?
01:42:58 Like Aitken needed an excuse
01:43:03 Some revolution.
01:43:04 The new fuckers
01:43:08 Big guys up here still control
01:43:12 Both sides of the border still scared shitless
01:43:17 because the Revolution's turned sour.
01:43:20 You want my two cents,
01:43:23 Mexico would be a hell of a lot better off...
01:43:25 if God had taken his goddamn oil
01:43:43 I wish very much
01:43:46 for the christening of my first-born:
01:43:48 Anastasio Francisco.
01:43:53 I hope he will be proud to say one day...
01:43:55 that he is the godson of Pancho Villa.
01:44:28 At the christening party...
01:44:30 the General was very much
01:44:34 Though some said later
01:44:39 They say he had a premonition.
01:44:47 After giving my son
01:44:51 which many times over
01:44:55 he started to drive back
01:44:58 with his secretary and two guards.
01:45:00 And then, in the center of Parral...
01:45:34 Some say the government
01:45:36 Some say it was the gringos.
01:45:42 The General was dragged away
01:45:46 Even in death they are afraid of him.
01:45:49 He is without a grave. He has no tomb.
01:45:53 How will they remember him, Señor Frank?
01:45:55 How will the sons of Mexico
01:47:08 Following his assassination,
01:47:11 was stricken from all official records,
01:47:16 When the government decided it was safe
01:47:20 it was discovered
01:47:23 In 1976, after half a century,
01:47:28 were laid to rest in Mexico City,
01:47:33 Finally he'd been given the funeral
01:47:39 As in the case of his head,
01:47:43 has been lost to posterity.
01:47:45 If anything at all, Frank Thayer
01:47:50 No complaints, it's not too bad