The Mexican film was produced by Upton Sinclair and a small group of financiers recruited by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, under a legal corporation these investors formed, the Mexican Film Trust.
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Through Sinclair, the Mexican Film Trust attempted to arouse interest from a major American motion picture concern to finish the film, but after months of failure to find among them anyone interested in the property, finally contracted with independent producer-distributor Sol Lesser to produce two short features and a short subject culled from the footage, Thunder Over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day all released in 1934.
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Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it his "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy".
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The destiny of his film Zavallılar seemed to be similar with those other unfinished films like Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico!, and Marilyn Monroe’s Something's Got to Give.