VIVA ZAPATA! (1952)
ELIA KAZAN
Plot
Emiliano Zapata was the reluctant but impassioned revolutionary hero who gave the Mexican people the courage to rise up and fight against their brutal and corrupt president. As much high adventure as it is a political and historical epic, Viva Zapata has some fine performances, but it rides dangerously close to melodrama at times, a genre ill suited to the subject.