Villa Rides (1968)

Pancho Villa: [Lee is preparing to take off] Wait. Fiero is going with you.
Lee Arnold: What? Now wait a minute, Chief. Not with... Chief, it's tough enough up there as it is.
Pancho Villa: No, if you go up there alone, you could fly away. If you try that with Fiero... Fiero will shoot you.
Lee Arnold: Oh? And without a pilot, what's Fiero gonna do?
Pancho Villa: Fiero will shoot you.
Lee Arnold: [thinks, and then grimaces]

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Client in barber shop: Pretty funny games they play down there, huh?
Lee Arnold: What about Villa? Did you hear anything about him?
Client in barber shop: Yeah... Yeah, he escaped from jail in Mexico City. Huerta has practically his entire army looking for him. Must want him pretty bad, huh?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I guess he does.
Client in barber shop: Hey, Lee. Is this 'Villa' a friend of yours?
Lee Arnold: Yeah, I know him.

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Lee Arnold: I'll fly for you, but I want something.
Pancho Villa: What?
Lee Arnold: [motions to Fierro] I want to blow his brains out.
Pancho Villa: I don't think he'll let you do that.
Lee Arnold: Well, then let these men go.
Pancho Villa: All right. How many?
Lee Arnold: How man... all of them! Their officers are dead; they can't hurt you; they don't want to fight any more.
Pancho Villa: No. Just one.
Lee Arnold: One?
Pancho Villa: One. Pick him! Go on, gringo. It's your chance to save one life. Go ahead.
Lee Arnold: [to Fierro] You pick him.
Rodolfo Fierro: [to guards] Let one go!
[they watch as one Colorado vaults the wall]

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Sam Peckinpah wrote the original script and was set to direct, but Yul Brynner didn't like the script because it made Pancho Villa - a man who had given standing orders to shoot all prisoners - "look like a bad guy". Peckinpah was fired and his script was rewritten by Robert Towne to conform to Brynner's idea of what Villa was like.
This is the first movie where Charles Bronson appears with his trademark mustache.
First movie to star real-life husband and wife Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland.
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