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((Short description|1969 film by Jerry Paris))
((more citations needed|date=June 2016))
((Infobox film
| name = Viva Max!
| image = Vivamax1969.jpg
| caption = 1969 [[film poster]] by [[Jack Davis (cartoonist)|Jack Davis]]
| director = [[Jerry Paris]]
| producer = Mark Carliner
| screenplay = [[Elliott Baker]]
| based_on = ((Based on|''Viva Max!''<br>1966 novel|[[Jim Lehrer|James Lehrer]]))
| starring = [[Peter Ustinov]]<br/>[[Pamela Tiffin]]<br/>[[Jonathan Winters]] <br/>[[John Astin]]<br/>[[Keenan Wynn]]<br/>[[Harry Morgan]]<br/>[[Alice Ghostley]]<br/>[[Kenneth Mars]]
| music = [[Hugo Montenegro]]
| cinematography = Henri Persin
| editing = David Berlatsky<br/>[[Bud Molin]]
| distributor = [[Commonwealth United Entertainment]]
| released = ((Film date|1969|12|18))
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
))
'''''Viva Max!''''' is a 1969 [[comedy film]] directed by [[Jerry Paris]] and starring [[Peter Ustinov]], [[Jonathan Winters]] and [[John Astin]]. The film was written by [[Elliott Baker]] and based on the 1966 novel of the same name by [[Jim Lehrer|James Lehrer]].<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A02EFD91F39EF34BC4B51DFB766838B669EDE|title=Screen: 'Viva Max' and the History of the Alamo: Peter Ustinov Stars in Music Hall Comedy Jerry Paris Is Director of 24-Hour Siege|last=Canby|first=Vincent|date=January 23, 1970|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 24, 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095209/https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A02EFD91F39EF34BC4B51DFB766838B669EDE|archive-date=March 4, 2016))</ref>

==Plot==
((Long plot|date=March 2021))
Riding a white horse, Brigadier General Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos of the army of Mexico arrives at a United States border crossing with a small company of soldiers on foot. He claims to be leading his men to [[Laredo, Texas|Laredo]], [[Texas]] to march in a parade on [[George Washington]]'s birthday.  The soldiers' destination is actually [[San Antonio]], where the general intends to carry out a quixotic mission to "re-occupy" the [[Alamo]]. None of his men are aware of his plans, but without argument they do whatever they are told by Max's devoted Sergeant Valdez.

Disguising himself in an ill-fitting suit as a tourist, Max goes on ahead and takes a guided tour of the Alamo. In the gift shop, he encounters an attractive young blonde, Paula, who, when she isn't selling postcards, is a radical student activist.  He returns to his men and, after racing through the streets of San Antonio, they seize control of the fort, taking Paula and two other Americans as their prisoners. Max places a call to the local authorities, telling police chief Sylvester that the flag of Mexico now flies above this piece of hallowed Texas ground.  Sylvester doesn't take him seriously at first, but quickly discovers that Max is an actual Army general and that everything else he has claimed is true. The chief goes to the Alamo to meet Max in person, using the passwords "John Wayne" and "Richard Widmark" to gain entry. Max instructs him to contact [[the Pentagon]] and report the fort to be back under Mexico's control.

As Max will only negotiate with another general, Sylvester calls on Billy Joe Hallson, a brigadier general of the state's [[National Guard of the United States|National Guard]], whose day job is running a mattress store.  Max is unimpressed.  A low-level bureaucrat from Washington condescendingly promises that if Max leaves quietly the United States will not take this "invasion" too seriously and mocks Mexico as "not exactly the Soviet Union." To which Max announces he will hold the Alamo for thirteen days in response to the snub.

Paula sees Max as a heroic revolutionary but he tells her his only reason for the invasion was to impress his girlfriend back home who told him that his men wouldn't follow him into a brothel.  A three-star U.S. Army general named Lacomber arrives to take charge. A company of his men scale the wall and enter the fort, but without ammunition, so as to avoid bloodshed and an international incident. It turns out Max's men are not carrying ammo, either, but the Americans fall for Max's bluff to open fire and promptly surrender. Max celebrates by doing a Mexican hat dance.

Paula brings the general back to earth by explaining that she has learned his soldiers follow him only because Valdez shoots any who do not obey orders. Disheartened, Max decides to wave the white flag of surrender and go peacefully. A private anti-communist militia, who think Max is a front for the Chinese, arrives just as Max is surrendering to Lacomber.  Their leader, whose aunt is one of the hostages, shoots Max in the shoulder. Max bravely orders his unarmed men to attack the armed militia.  His men, for the first time, willingly follow his orders and the militia flee as their leader is arrested.

Max then tells the U.S. authorities that he intends to "advance"—to Mexico. Satisfied at that, Sylvester, Lacomber and Hallson let the Mexican general get back on his horse. He rides out of town triumphantly with his men chanting proudly: "Viva Max!"

==Cast==
((Div col))
* [[Peter Ustinov]] as General Maximillian Rodrigo De Santos aka Max
* [[Pamela Tiffin]] as Paula Whitland
* [[Jonathan Winters]] as General Billy Joe Hallson
* [[John Astin]] as Sergeant Valdez
* [[Keenan Wynn]] as General Lacomber
* [[Harry Morgan]] as Chief Sylvester
* [[Alice Ghostley]] as Hattie
* [[Larry Hankin]] as Pedro Romero
* [[Kenneth Mars]] as Sam Gillison
* [[Ann Morgan Guilbert]] as Edna Miller
* [[Bill McCutcheon]] as Desmond Miller
* [[Gino Conforti]] as Contreras
* Christopher Ross as Gomez

* [[Paul Sand]] as Moreno
* [[Don Diamond]] as Hernandez
* [[Jack Colvin]] as Garcia
* Jessica Myerson as Mrs. Dodd
* [[Ted Gehring]] as Customs Guard Collins
* Jim B. Smith as Customs Guard Michaels
* [[Eldon Quick]] as Quincy
((Div col end))

==Music==
The film's musical styles drift back and forth between the sound of the 'invading' army's military band and the late-1960's pop groove, 
the former during scenes focusing on the movement of Max's forces, and the latter during wider views of the invaders as seen within the surrounding activity of everyday American life going on all around them.  The film credits the music to [[Hugo Montenegro]] along with the duo of [[Dino & Sembello|Ralph Dino & John Sembello]], with the ostentatious trumpet solos by virtuoso [[Al Hirt]].

==Production==
A controversy occurred when The [[Daughters of the Republic of Texas]] objected to the filming of the Alamo to the point of staging protests on location.  This caused some scenes to be filmed at an [[Alamo]] replica in [[Brackettville, Texas|Brackettville]], [[Texas]] and interior shots at studios in [[Italy]] instead of in [[San Antonio]] at the actual Alamo.<ref name="Texas Women Reject Alamo Movie Idea">((cite news|title=Texas Women Reject Alamo Movie Idea|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PbQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ocsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4456,7052536&dq=daughters+of+the+republic+of+texas&hl=en|newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal|date=29 March 1969))</ref>

==Release==
The film premiered in [[San Antonio, Texas]] on December 18, 1969.<ref>((cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=December 17, 1969|page=14|title=New York Sound Track))</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1969]]

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* ((Rotten Tomatoes|viva_max))
* ((IMDb title|0065184|Viva Max!))

((Jerry Paris))

[[Category:1969 films]]
[[Category:1969 comedy films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:American comedy films]]
[[Category:American political satire films]]
[[Category:Films based on American novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Jerry Paris]]
[[Category:Films scored by Hugo Montenegro]]
[[Category:Films set in Texas]]
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