Publisher's Synopsis
Antonio Banderas delivers a powerful, larger-than-life performance as the title character of this incredible true story of how Mexican Revolutionary, Pancho Villa, allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. The adventure gets its start when early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken, send a junior executive, Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal crossfire, Thayer's crew risks their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. After a string of dangerous exploits, narrow escapes, and double-crosses worthy of a silent action short, Thayer and Villa make their movie, and The Life of General Villa is released in the U.S. to popular acclaim. The film changes the public opinion in Villa's favor and proves that the lens is mightier than the sword.
