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Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American biographical Western film directed by Elia Kazan, dramatizing the life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata from his peasant upbringing through his rise to power in the early 1900s and his death in 1919. It stars Marlon Brando as the title character, and features Jean Peters as his wife Josefa and Anthony Quinn as his brother Eufemio. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck,…
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Of the two best-known leaders of the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa enjoyed much more popularity among Hollywood filmmakers, being more adventurous, larger-than-life and much closer to Hollywood, both figuratively and literally. Emiliano Zapata, on the other hand, operated in the remote south of Mexico and was a rather dour figure, more serious about land reform and other socio-economic aspects of the revolution.…More
