Zorro

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Zorro (Italy, France 1974 / Director: Duccio Tessari)

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  • Runtime: 125 min
  • Release Date: 6.3.1975

Also known as

El Zorro la belva del Colorado (Italy) | El Zorro (Spain) | A Marca do Zorro (Brazil) | Zoro (Japan)

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Alain Delon (Don Diego/El Zorro), Ottavia Piccolo (Contessina Ortensia Pulido), Enzo Cerusico (Joaquín), Moustache (Sgt. Garcia), Giacomo Rossi-Stuart (as Giacomo Rossi Stuart)(Fritz von Merkel), Giampiero Albertini (Brother Francisco), Marino Masé (as Marino Mase'), Raika Juri (as Rajka Jurcec), Adriana Asti, Stanley Baker (Col. Huerta), Yvan Chiffre (uncredited)
  • Screenplay: Giorgio Arlorio
  • Cinematography: Giulio Albonico [Eastmancolor - Panoramico 1,85:1]
  • Music: Guido and Maurizio De Angelis

Synopsis

The internationally produced Zorro is set in South America instead of the California locales of the series. Alain Delon stars as the newly appointed governor who immediately butts heads with corrupt Colonel Huerta (Stanley Baker). To rescue the peasants from Huerta's despotry, the governor becomes the caped-and-masked do-gooder Zorro. The film never really takes itself seriously, not even during the final, well-staged duel between Zorro and Huerta.

Comment

There were already several Zorro films made alongside the SW craze (most of them just like this one not really westerns), but Tessari's and Delon's version was the first with a major budget. Unfortunately it was also a major disappointment for both the star and his director. In this family friendly and much too jokey film the boots of Douglas Fairbanks and Tyrone Power are much too big for Alain Delon.

by Stanton

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