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Which Mexican revolutionary did Marlon Brando portray in Viva Zapata!?

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Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him. — Elia Kazan Elia Kazan on the set of Panic in the Streets, 1950.

In the 1952 film Viva Zapata!, directed by Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando portrayed the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.1