Juarez (1939)

Directors

William Dieterle

Cast

Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, John Garfield, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp

The story

The film focuses on the ongoing conflict between Maximilian I, an Austrian archduke who is installed as the ruler of Mexico by the French Napoleon III, and Benito Juárez, the country's U.S.-backed president. In 1863, Napoleon III of France, fearful he will lose Mexico to Juárez, circumvents the Monroe Doctrine by instituting sovereign rule and controlling an election that places Maximilian von Habsburg on the Mexican throne. Upon his arrival in the country with his wife Carlota of Belgium, Maxmilian realizes he is expected to establish French supremacy by confiscating land that Juárez had returned to the native people and penalizing the…

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