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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juárez (Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne; TIME...
...Juárez (Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne; TIME...
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...underline its central character, Juárez makes blond-bearded Maximilian a finer straw man than history allows. Benito Pablo Juárez, the Indian-blooded Constitutional President of Mexico, is a democrat because "when a monarch misrules, he changes the people; when a president misrules, the people change him." In this simple faith Juárez, played with stolid nobility by Paul Muni in a dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when...
Essentially two stories (in the picture, as in fact, Juárez and Maximilian never meet), Juárez is unified by its democratic theme, of which it is a picturesque and moving statement. Not a rich pageant of Central American guerrillas and gaiety like Viva Villa!, nor as searching a personal portrait as The Life of Emile Zola, it has moments as gay and as revealing as either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star...