Bandido (1956)

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  • BANDIDO



    DIRECTED BY RICHARD FLEISCHER
    MUSIC BY MAX STEINER
    PRODUCED BY ROBERT MITCHUM
    D.R.M. PRODUCTIONS/BANDIDO PRODUCTIONS
    UNITED ARTISTS



    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares"
    in the 1916 Mexican revolution.
    American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar,
    and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife.
    Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
    Written by Rod Crawford


    Cast
    Robert Mitchum ... Wilson
    Ursula Thiess ... Lisa Kennedy
    Gilbert Roland ... Colonel José Escobar
    Zachary Scott ... Kennedy
    Rodolfo Acosta ... Sebastian
    José Torvay ... Gonzalez (as Jose Torvay)
    Henry Brandon ... Gunther
    Douglas Fowley ... McGhee
    and many more...

    Directed
    Richard Fleischer


    Writing Credits
    Earl Felton ... (story and screenplay)


    Produced
    Robert L. Jacks ... producer


    Music
    Max Steiner


    Cinematography
    Ernest Laszlo ... (photographed by)


    Trivia
    The film was shot on many of the actual battle sites of the 1916 Mexican revolution,
    the period during which this film is set.
    Many of the older Mexicans hired as extras in the film were former soldiers of Pancho Villa
    and others were former government troops who fought them.


    The film was a collaboration between Robert Mitchum's
    independent production company DRM Productions
    and Robert L. Jacks Productions and it marked Mitchum's first producing effort.


    Goofs
    Continuity
    When Kennedy confronts Wilson and Lisa at the stairs
    the long shot from behind Kennedy's shoulder show Wilson holding Lisa's right forearm
    as she stands to Wilson's left and slightly behind.
    The following close shot shows Wilson holding Lisa's left forearm with her half-hidden behind him.

    Errors in geography
    Near the end of the movie Robert Mitchum says the barges with the arsenal are at Playa Blanca,
    which is on Mexico's west coast NW of Acapulco.
    In the final scene after telling Gilbert Roland that he was headed north toward
    the border where he left Ursula Thiess in a "pawn shop",
    he trots along the beach with the Pacific Ocean on his right -- clearly heading south.


    Filming Locations
    Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico (street scenes)
    Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
    Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
    Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico
    Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
    Yaltapec, Mexico
    Bavispe, Sonora, Mexico
    Torreón, Coahuíla, Mexico
    Churubusco Studios, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico (studio)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • Bandido is a 1956 American Western film starring Robert Mitchum.
    The supporting cast includes Ursula Thiess, Gilbert Roland, and Zachary Scott.


    The film, set in the Mexican Revolution and filmed on location around Acapulco,
    was written by Earl Felton and directed by Richard Fleischer. Robert Mitchum
    also co-produced the film through his DRM Productions company.


    Production
    The film was based on an original screen story by Earl Fenton called Horse Opera.
    It was about an American movie company in the early 1900s who is captured by Pancho Villa.
    The hero was a soldier of fortune, the right hand man to Pancho Villa,
    who falls for the movie company's leading lady, rescues her from Villa,
    takes her to Hollywood and becomes a movie star.



    A producer, Robert L Jacks liked it and set up the film at United Artists,
    with Robert Mitchum to star and Richard Fleischer to direct.
    Fleischer had worked with Fenton several times but says the screenwriter
    wrote a script which diverted significantly from the original treatment,
    removing the movie company, the leading lady, Hollywood and Pancho Villa.
    Fleischer wanted to pull out of the project but United Artists were worried
    they would lose Mitchum and threatened to sue


    This film was shot on location in Mexico at Cuernavaca, Tepetlán, Palo Balero in Xochitepec,
    Yautepec de Zaragoza, Acapulco, Iguala and the Hotel Hacienda in Cocoyoc, Morelos.

    Reception
    Fleischer wrote that the film "turned out to be quite a good, commercially successful picture.
    It has, however, absolutely nothing to do with the picture I started out to make."



    User Review


    Possibly the essential Mitchum is to be found in Fleischer's "Bandido."
    15 September 2002 | by Righty-Sock (Mexico)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England