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431: 25: 1785: 1732: 328: 460:, describing Villa's charisma as well as noting that peasants would knock the teeth out of corpses with rocks in the wake of firing squads in order to harvest the gold fillings, which was captured on film and had the projectionists vomiting in the screening room back in Los Angeles. 448:
where he received a $ 25,000 advance and was promised 50% of the profits from the film for agreeing to let the company shoot his battles in daylight, and for re-enacting them if more footage was needed. (The contract resides in a museum in
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as himself, shot on location during a civil war. The film incorporated both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the
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Pancho Villa's reason for starring in the movie was financial as he needed funds to help the
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The making of the film and associated events were dramatized in the film
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Raoul Walsh wrote extensively about the experience in his autobiography
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at the Archivo Federico Gonzalez Garza, folio 3057.)
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