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Juarez is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Dieterle released in USA on 10 june 1939 with Paul Muni

Juarez (1939)

Juarez et Maximilien

Juarez
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Released in USA 10 june 1939
Length 2h12
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical,    Romance
Rating68% 3.446263.446263.446263.446263.44626

Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, John Huston, and Wolfgang Reinhardt is based on the novel The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel.

Synopsis

The film focuses on the conflict between Maximilian I, a European political dupe who is installed as the puppet ruler of Mexico by the French, and Benito Juárez, the country's president.

Actors

Paul Muni

(Benito Pablo Juárez)Bette Davis

(Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg)Brian Aherne

(Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg)John Garfield

(General Porfirio Diaz)Claude Rains

(Emperor Louis Napoleon III)
And :
Gale Sondergaard
Joseph Calleia
Gilbert Roland
Louis Calhern
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