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Name: Viva Zapata
Released: 1952-3-1
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Moss

Viva Zapata

NR
1h 54m
1952

56%

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The life and times of the legendary Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata are brought to the screen in this powerful production of John Steinbeck’s screenplay. Marlon Brando gives a stunning portrayal of the man who starts life as a peasant and grows to resent and reject the feudal system that harms the poor. Ultimately, in partnership with his brother (Anthony Quinn), he rises to fight it.

Director:

Elia Kazan

Producer:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

John Steinbeck

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman, Arnold Moss, Alan Reed, Margo, Harold Gordon, Lou Gilbert, Mildred Dunnock

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

56%

Reviews

Patheos

Eve Tushnet

I mostly didn’t care for Brando’s performance or the execrable, preachy script by John Steinbeck, and these actually good scenes felt like punctuation marks rather than the substance of the film.

When a film about the Mexican revolution focuses on Zapata's illiteracy instead of his actions to confront a dictatorship goes to show how Hollywood wants to depict Mexicans. Brando as Zapata, no thank you. Quinn makes this film slightly tolerable.

"Viva Zapata!" is one of those films that, while it continues to have impressive aspects, just doesn't hold up as well as it did when it was first made. You find yourself wishing it were in widescreen, and that they had hired at least ONE Latino actor.

Kazan's biopic of the Mexican revolutionary offers good parts to Marlon Brando in the lead and Anthony Quinn as his brother, but it gets too conventional in the second half.

Elia Kazan places an interesting and honest spotlight upon politics, which proves that left wing liberators are just as dangerous as the right wing fascists they have overpowered, and vice versa.

June 22, 2017

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