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Into the Streets. On the appointed day, gunfire and cries of "Viva la revolution!" pierced the early-morning quiet of La Paz (pop. 350,000). M.N.R. partisans invaded public buildings, set up barricades, passed out guns. Seizing La Paz's most powerful radio station, they fooled at least part of the populace by announcing a "total and bloodless victory." But only part of the army joined them; at the last minute, top commanders swung their forces behind the junta government of General Hugo Ballivián. Bringing reinforcements from outlying towns, the government counterattacked with planes, artillery and mortars...
...disapproval). Partisans took up the challenge, shouted bravos. When Castro came back to the podium to begin the second-act prelude, he had to wait a full two minutes, back to the audience, for the din to die down. Before the opera was over, his critics were shouting, "Viva Verdi!", "Viva Wagner!" and even "Coca-Cola!"-from one listener who seemed to have North and South America confused...
...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...
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...