Word: pascal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pancho Villa. The flogging and tortures by which the Diaz regime kept the peons in subjection arouse the anger of Villa and inspired by Madero he opens revolt against the government. After much bloody fighting Madero is installed as President, but his program of social reform divides his ranks. Pascal, a treacherous general leads the opposition, and the counter revolution soon ends in the murder of Madero and the installation of a conservative government. Villa learns of the treachery and returns to Mexico at the head of his rejuvenated army of peons and bandits. Pascal is ousted, and the liberal...
...captain under Madero, Villa captures towns in the north of Mexico whenever he feels like it. He takes Santa Rosalia against the orders of a superior officer. General Pascal (Joseph Schildkraut), to oblige a U. S. newspaperman (Stuart Erwin) who has written the story in advance. To oblige a wench named Rosita (Katherine de Mille, sultry daughter of Producer Cecil Blount de Mille) Villa has the newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing...
...epic portion of Viva Villa arrives when Sykes, the U. S. newspaperman, arrives to tell Villa that Pascal, whom Villa hates, has killed little Madero, whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing...
...doors away Pascal Oldham, 78, hardware merchant, was locking up his store when he turned to see a car flash by, to hear guns crackle. A stray bullet drilled clean through his head. Hours later he died in a hospital...
...some of the boys would justly describe as a smooth babe. The rest of the cast maintain the high standard set by Miss Peterson; and to say this is to pay them no mean compliment. As always at the Plymouth the sets are excellent. Thora Donelle Marjorie Peterson Warren Pascal Brian Donlevy Catharine Pellett Helen Brooks Homer Pellett Louis Jean Heydt Eva Mordecai Ollie Burgoyne Janice McNish June Martel Hans Patt Carl Johan