villa ride ( 1968 ) turn out to be something of a big disappointment . and even though sam peckinpah have a hand in the screenplay and along with robert towne and it still emerge a a leadenly write movie dryly direct by the undistinguished buzz kulik . firstly and top bill yul brynner a pancho villa be wrong for the part . he not charismatic enough to play the great mexican revolutionary . his one note performance lack the fire and gusto anthony quinn or gilbert roland could have bring to the role . brynner simply look like a russian aristocrat dress up like a mexican bandit who be in the middle of the mexican revolution instead of the russian one . also and second bill robert mitchum be totally waste in the picture . his part a a biplane fly ace lob home make bomb from the air in the cause of the revolution be a poorly write meager role that could have be play by any minor star . mitch hasn not a decent line in the entire movie and bring to one mind his other mexican revolution picture the far superior bandido ( 1956 ) which unfortunately nobody seem to have any interest in release on dvd . besides lack any kind of style villa ride also suffers badly without the presence of a female star . there be starlet grazia buccella a a young mexican girl who give mitchum the glad eye but her casting be merely perfunctory . someone like claudia cardinale or jean peter could have perhaps add a couple of badly need notch to the falter story line . there be a couple of good action scene in the movie but a couple of good action scene do not a movie make and the less than perfect panavision picture quality plus the over repetitive maurice jarre theme tune doesn not help matter . a be paramount wont there be no extra not even a trailer . yup and a disappointing movie and dvd presentation that could have be and should have be a whole lot well .