
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.

as Pancho Villa

as Frank Thayer

as Sam Drebben

as Harry Aitken

as John Reed

as William Christy Cabanne

as Raoul Walsh

as Teddy Sampson

as D. W. Griffith

as William Benton

as Eli Morton

as Rosita

