An oddly hairy Yul Brynner struggles against his miscasting as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa in director Buzz Kulik’s handsome but meandering 1968 Western action thriller Villa Rides! The movie gives plenty of screen time to Robert Mitchum’s equally meandering, laconic, buccaneering Texas gunrunner and airman Lee Arnold and Charles Bronson as his amigo Rodolfo Fierro, and that is good, but it still remains vaguely unsatisfactory (…) Bronson is oddly hairy too. It is the first movie where he appears with his trademark moustache. Mitchum did not get along with Brynner and said he could not understand why Bronson was famous. — Derek Winnert