Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando in a forceful dramatization about Mexico's peasant rebellion. At the Metropolitan...
...opening shot of a bullet-pocked adobe wall characterizes this "biography" of Emiliano Zapata, Mexico's peasant revolutionary. Twentieth Century Fox concentrated on the bloodshed and violence of Zapata's rebellion, and although Viva Zapata has captured the force of this brutality, it stops right there...
...Viva Zapafa! (20th Century-Fox) is a delayed cinematic footnote to MGM's slambang Viva Villa (1934), in which Wallace Beery sweatily portrayed Mexico's bandit patriot. Villa's revolutionary ally to the south in the bloody 1911-19 uprisings was fiery Emiliano Zapata, nicknamed "the Tiger...
...Viva Zapata! makes the Tiger out to be a pretty tame cat. According to history, Zapata was not only a great folk hero and agrarian emancipator, but also a cruel, cunning Guerrero Indian whose notorious Death Legion made human torches of the enemy and staked living men to anthills...
When John Steinbeck's screenplay is not dishing up primer politics and flabby moralizing (the unlettered bandit is made to mouth such sentiments as: "I don't want to be the conscience of the world"), Viva Zapata! is good, muscular horse opera. Director Elia Kazan has filled it with vigorous action-horsemen charging, ammunition trains being dynamited and peons fighting. Striking sequence: President Francisco Madero being shot down by the military in the glare of automobile headlights while a siren drowns out his cries...