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10 June 1939 (USA)
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A Mighty King . . . A Proud Queen ! . . . pitted against a humble man who had the courage to defy the throne ! more
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The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy...
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Aherne Shines!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul Muni | ... | Benito Juarez |
 | Bette Davis | ... | Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg |
 | Brian Aherne | ... | Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg |
 | Claude Rains | ... | Emperor Louis Napoleon III |
| John Garfield | ... | Gen. Porfirio Diaz |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Gen. Marechal Achille Bazaine |
| Joseph Calleia | ... | Alejandro Uradi |
| Gale Sondergaard | ... | Empress Eugenie |
| Gilbert Roland | ... | Col. Miguel Lopez |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Gen. Miguel Miramon |
| Harry Davenport | ... | Dr. Samuel Basch |
| Louis Calhern | ... | LeMarc |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Prince Richard Metternich |
| Georgia Caine | ... | Countess Battenberg |
| Montagu Love | ... | Jose de Montares |
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125 min | USA:121 min (Turner library print) | 132 min (original release)
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Extensive research was done to provide accuracy. The writers had a bibliography of 372 books. Art director Anton Grot made 3,643 sketches from which 7,360 blueprints were prepared for exterior and interior settings. A complete Mexican village was built on the Warner Bros. ranch in the San Fernando Valley.
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Emperor Louis Napoleon III:
Democracy! Government of the cattle, by the cattle, for the cattle!
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Referenced in The History Boys (2006)
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My Country Tis of Thee
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Brian Aherne, as the Emperor Maximillian, is the strongest thing going for this historical film depicting the failed attempt by Louis Napoleon to create a puppet government in Mexico. The rest of the casting is uneven at best. John Garfield is badly miscast as Diaz, as is that great character actor Donald Crisp. Paul Muni playing the Zapotac Indian, Benito Juarez, manages to just look stoic and sullen and is not called upon to do much acting. Maybe it's the makeup! Claude Rains and Gale Sondergaard are outstanding as Napoleon III and his queen Eugenie and they play at the devious political game with just the right amount of intrigue.
The film is historically correct and that is part of the problem. The filmmakers put every incident that led to the fall of Maximillian into the story and the film drags on and on. It's more information that we need to know.
There are mixed opinions on the Bette Davis portrayal of Empress Carlotta, the unstable wife of Maximillian. Hers is an interesting story but Davis may not have put enough incipient madness into her characterization.
On the whole,this is a pretty good history lesson with no Hollywood happy ending tacked on, that tells of a well meaning, gentle man who was badly used by the French emperor, sent to rule a people of whom he knew nothing, in a land where he was not wanted. And Aherne absolutely is perfect for the part.....he is the star of this film.