Juarez (Warner Bros.) (1939)

& FOREWORD To tell the story of Juarez is to tell three stories. First, the story of insidious intrigue by which Napoleon Ill, emperor of France, sought to seize the valuable land that is Mexico for his own empire. Second, it tells of the tragic fate suffered by the puppet emperor and empress, Maximilian and Carlota. And last, it tells of Benito Pablo Juarez. Born in poverty of illiterate Zapotecan Indian parents, Juarez was soon to follow his magnificent destiny—to become the “Abraham Lincoln of Mexico," to liberate the downtrodden people he knew so well, and to give them the God-granted right of freedom to live in self-respect and happiness. When, in 1864, Louis Napoleon sent Maximilian von Habsburg to rule his puppet state, "the golden archduke" was found to be a man who, too, in all sincerity, desired a good life for his subjects. To some of them he appeared as Quetzalcoatl — the god who had sailed away in the sunrise and promised to come back — but to the inexorable Juarez, Maximilian represented foreign aggression —despotism however benevolent, come to subjugate his people once more. And so he fought back, fired by all the burning zeal instilled in him by his principles until uncompromising victory was his. Juarez —a statesman of integrity, sincerity, and determination, whose good qualities were later sometimes to be overlooked as a result of the unhappy fate dealt the well-meaning Maximilian. Against this background of portentous conflict, of history before our eyes, of great people and their struggle for democracy — timely in a world torn asunder this very day by the same conflict — Warner Bros. have produced "Juarez," co-starring two Academy Award winners — Paul Muni and Bette Davis. To bring such a story to the world in the finest manner possible, Warner Bros. gave two years of preparation, the greatest production budget, and secured the best talent available to make up the cast of 1188 players headed by Paul Muni and Bette Davis. The same company — Warner Bros. — which produced such motion picture treasures as “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” "The Life of Emile Zola," “Dark Victory" and other notable screen productions, has taken another forward step to prove its leadership in the field of motion picture entertainment by producing "Juarez™ —a contribution to the liberty-loving peoples of the world. Country of origin U, S. A, Copyright 1939 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved, Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers per TR CAsT OF CHARACTERS 2 = Benito Pablo Juarez .o.....c..ccc0cccce PAUL MUNI* = COND BRE ae Bae BETTE DAVIS* M axtiniltattiieccs, «.:ccitkics ct gue dre Brian Aherne Napoleon WU 2. nice. AO Claude Rains BOG. DEE. 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Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold* Dialogue Director, Irving Rapper Assistant Director, Jack Sullivan* Photography by Tony Gaudio,* A.S.C. Art Director, Anton Grot Film Editor, Warren Low Sound by C. A. Riggs Makeup Artist, Perc Westmore Costumes Designed by Orry-Kelly Technical Advisor, Ernesto Romero Vitaphone Orchestra under direction of Leo F, Forbstein* *Academy Award Winners