Viva Zapata! 1952
A daring outlaw turned folk hero, the film chronicles the rise of Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary who rode a white horse and rallied peasants against President Porfirio Díaz’s corrupt regime in the early 1900s, igniting a struggle for land reform that made him a legend.
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Marlon Brando
Emiliano Zapata
Anthony Quinn
Eufemio Zapata
Ross Bagdasarian
Officer (uncredited)
Mildred Dunnock
Senora Espejo
Bernie Gozier
Zapatista (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva
New General (uncredited)
Henry Silva
Hernandez (uncredited)
Guy Thomajan
Eduardo (uncredited)
Alan Reed
Pancho Villa
Henry Corden
Senior Officer (uncredited)
Harold Gordon
Madero
Richard Garrick
Old General
Joseph Wiseman
Fernando
Joe Herrera
Rurale (uncredited)
Lou Gilbert
Pablo
Jean Peters
Josefa
Philip Van Zandt
Commanding Officer (uncredited)
Kumar Pallana
Soldier (uncredited)
Miguel Contreras
Mexican (uncredited)
Margo
Soldadera
Nick Thompson
Delegate (uncredited)
Frank Silvera
Huerta
Larry Duran
Young Farmer in Opening (uncredited)
Peter Mamakos
Soldier (uncredited)
Fred Sadoff
Soldier (uncredited)
Jack Carr
Huerta's Aide (uncredited)
Will Kuluva
Lazaro (uncredited)
Alex Montoya
Rurale (uncredited)
Nina Varela
Aunt (uncredited)
Abner Biberman
Captain (uncredited)
George J. Lewis
Rurale Officer (uncredited)
Arnold Moss
Don Nacio
Joe Dominguez
Manuel (uncredited)
Danny Sands
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Marc Krah
Officer (uncredited)
Robert Filmer
Captain of Rurales (uncredited)
David Fresco
Guard (uncredited)
Carlo Tricoli
Photographer (uncredited)
Tiger Joe Marsh
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Rico Alaniz
Guard (uncredited)
Salvador Baguez
Soldier (uncredited)
Fay Roope
Diaz
Florenz Ames
Senor Espejo
Fernanda Eliscu
Fuentes' Wife (uncredited)
Ric Roman
Manager (uncredited)
Pedro Regas
Innocente (uncredited)
Julia Montoya
Wife (uncredited)
Daniel Nunez
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Joseph Granby
General Fuentes (uncredited)
Leonard George
Husband (uncredited)
Juan Varro
Guard (uncredited)
Paul Lopez
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Edward Colmans
Secretary (uncredited)
James Porta
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Daniel Armijo
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
John F. Bray
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Enrique Cabrera
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
William Frescas
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Ruben Holquin
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Harry Kingston
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Charles Martinez
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Yolanda Mirelez
Girl (uncredited)
Eustorgio Ramon
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Juan Saenz
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Henri Sidoni
Driver (uncredited)
Marc Snegoff
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Marc Snow
Attendant (uncredited)
Shooting Star
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Irving Winter
Pepe (uncredited)
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Emiliano Zapata Marlon Brando is part of a delegation sent to complain about injustices to corrupt longtime president Porfirio Díaz Fay Roope, but Díaz dismisses their concerns, driving Zapata to open rebellion, along with his brother Eufemio Zapata Anthony Quinn. He unites with Pancho Villa Alan Reed under the leadership of naive reformer Francisco Madero Harold Gordon.
Díaz is toppled and Madero takes his place, but Zapata is dismayed to find that nothing is changing. Madero offers Zapata land of his own while failing to take action to distribute land to the campesinos who fought to end the dictatorship and break up the estates of the elites, and Zapata rejects the offer, seeking no personal gain. Meanwhile, the ineffectual but well-meaning Madero places his trust in treacherous general Victoriano Huerta Frank Silvera.
Huerta first takes Madero captive and then has him murdered.
As it becomes clear that each new regime is no less corrupt and self-serving than the one it replaced, Zapata remains guided by his desire to return to the peasants their recently robbed lands while forsaking his personal interests. His brother sets himself up as a petty dictator, taking what he wants without regard for the law, but Zapata remains a rebel leader of high integrity.
Although he is able to defeat Huerta after Madero’s assassination, as a result of his integrity, Zapata loses his brother and his position.
Although in the end Zapata himself is lured into an ambush and killed, the film suggests that the resistance of the campesinos does not end. Rumors begin that Zapata never died, but is instead continuing to fight from the hills, feeding the campesinos a sense of hope. As several scenes suggest, over the years, the campesinos have learned to lead themselves rather than looking to others to lead them.
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