Here de Fuentes examines the Revolution pitilessly, in all its chaos and contradictions. Vámonos tells the stories of six rancheros who join Pancho Villa's loyal troops and one by one are led to their deaths. The desertion of a single disillusioned survivor contributes to a portrait of the charismatic Pancho Villa as a heartless leader in the face of war's horrors and personal loss. De Fuentes had state support for this first superproduction in Mexican cinema: useof a new film studio; for the film's thrilling, realistic battle scenes, a train (a major protagonist of the film as it was of the Revolution); and a battalion of soldiers as extras. Critical appreciation came late-in a sixties revival-but with its cynical depiction of Mexican leadership, its Grand Illusion-like argument for peace on the personal level, and a score by Silvestre Revueltas, this is now considered the definitive work on the Mexican Revolution.