Villa Rides

Villa Rides is a 1968 film starring Yul Brynner in toupee in the title role and Robert Mitchum as an American adventurer and pilot of fortune. The supporting cast includes Charles Bronson as Fierro, Herbert Lom as Huerta, and Alexander Knox as Madero. Sam Peckinpah wrote the original script and was set to direct but Brynner didn't like his depiction of Villa as cruel and had Robert Towne rewrite the script and sought another director. The screenplay is based on the biography by William Douglas Lansford.

Mitchum's character may have derived his first name from actor Lee Tracy, who had been cast in the primary supporting role for Viva Villa in 1934 but lost the role and derailed his career for decades by drunkenly urinating off a balcony into a crowd of Mexicans below.

In the original posters for the film, Brynner's name is billed first but Mitchum's image is somewhat larger.