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Budget. $1.8 million [1] Box office. $1,900,000 (US rentals) [2] Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon's 1941 book Zapata the Unconquerable as a guide. The cast includes Jean Peters, and in an Academy Award -winning ...
- $1.8 million
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Viva Zapata!: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman. The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
- Elia Kazan
- 68
- 3 min
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Overall, Viva Zapata! was an entertaining film with some good acting and some beautiful cinematography but some pacing issues and a bland screenplay did hurt the film's overall quality.
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Viva Zapata! (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Congratulations, General Zapata! Morelos, Mexico, ca. 1909, after an early victory Marlon Brando (the title character, the peasant-revolutionary Emiliano) sharing tributes, Anthony Quinn his brother Eufemio (also a historical figure), Florenz Ames as Don Nacio, the now-friendly father of his love interest, and Joseph Wiseman representing the shadow ...
- Elia Kazan, Horace Hough, Robert Snody
- Marlon Brando
In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with President Diaz's response puts him in danger, and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the ...
Director. Edgecumb Pinchon. Novel. John Steinbeck. Screenplay. The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
