The Washington Post, September 7th, 2003
Antonio Banderas plays the title role in "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself," an original HBO film debuting on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. In a highly unusual portrait of the Mexican revolutionary, the film offers the little-known but extraordinary story of how pioneering movie giant D.W. Griffith and his partner, Harry Aitken, bought the exclusive rights to film Villa's revolution in Mexico and created Hollywood's first "action" movie. Bruce Beresford directed from a script by Larry Gelbart ("M*A*S*H," "Barbarians at the Gate"). The story describes the 1913 decision by Pancho Villa to offer the f...
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