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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 performance, Anthony Quinn.
- $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
Mexican rancher Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) becomes a revolutionary when corrupt President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) ignores the needs of his people. Zapata, his brother Eufemio (Anthony...
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- Marlon Brando
- Elia Kazan
- Twentieth Century Fox
Film Details. Also Known As. Emiliano Zapata, The Beloved Tiger, The Life of Emiliano Zapata, The Tiger, Zapata, the Little Tiger. Genre. Western. Biography. Drama. Release Date. Mar 1952. Premiere Information. New York opening: 7 Feb 1952; Los Angeles opening: 12 Mar 1952.
- Elia Kazan, Horace Hough, Robert Snody
- Marlon Brando
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Summaries. 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. 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 ...
Oct 26, 2019 · Screenplay by John Steinbeck. Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck based the filming on numerous photographs taken during the revolutionary years between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from the people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
