Editing Viva Villa! (section)

==Reception==
''Viva Villa!'' was popular at the box office<ref>Churchill, Douglas W. ''The Year in Hollywood: 1934 May Be Remembered as the Beginning of the Sweetness-and-Light Era''; ''The New York Times'' [New York, N.Y.] p. X5.</ref> and was voted one of the ten best pictures of 1934 by ''[[The Film Daily]]'''s annual poll of critics.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alicoate |first=Jack |year=1935 |title=The 1935 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures, 17th Annual Edition |work=[[The Film Daily]] |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdailyyearboo00film_5/page/58/mode/2up}}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film a "corking western",<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1933/film/reviews/viva-villa-1117796147/|title=Viva Villa!|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=December 31, 1933}}</ref> while [[Helen Lawrenson|Helen Brown-Norden]] of ''[[Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)|Vanity Fair]]'' wrote "There is also no denying the fact that [[Wallace Beery]] is not everybody's Villa".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Norden |first=Helen Brown |date=June 1934 |title=Hollywood's Mexico |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1934/06/01/the-screen |access-date= |website=[[Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

During the film's production, the Mexican press called it "derogatory to Mexico", and urged the film to be boycotted in Mexico.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=25 November 1933 |title=Mexicans Urge Film Ban; Declare Showing of 'Viva Villa' Would Cost Nation Respect |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/11/25/archives/mexicans-urge-film-ban-declare-showing-of-viva-villa-would-cost.html |access-date= |issn=}}</ref>