Best Picture nominee draws a portrait of Francisco "Pancho" Villa (1877-1923), who became a Robin Hood-type hero during the Mexican Revolution, only to turn into a marauding, quasi-patriotic outlaw.

Last week a Hollywood actor lost his job for being drunk and disorderly on foreign soil. To Mexico City to make a picture called Viva Villa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sent Lee Tracy, famed for his ...

For ten roistering, rampaging years, Francisco Villa, the cattle rustler and mule driver from Durango, was the joy and terror of the Mexican Revolution. “Pancho ...