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Zorro, The Gay Blade

Country: USA, Language: English, 93 mins

  • Director: Peter Medak
  • Writer: Johnston McCulley; Hal Dresner
  • Producer: Greg Alt; C.O. Erickson

CGiii Comment

Simple spoofy stupidity - there has been quite a lot of money spent on this...just a pity the producers decided to nit-pick with the writers.

It's not funny - well, perhaps to an 8 year old.

Hamilton does his best with a shit script.

Medak, who made The Krays, has had a very bizarre career - peaks and troughs.

The blame lies squarely with the writers and the producers who employed them - thank Darwin for more sophisticated audiences.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip.

Cast & Characters

George Hamilton as Don Diego Vega / Zorro / Bunny Wigglesworth / The Gay Blade / Ramon Vega;
Lauren Hutton as Charlotte Taylor Wilson;
Brenda Vaccaro as Florinda;
Ron Leibman as Captain Esteban;
Donovan Scott as Paco;
James Booth as Velasquez;
Helen Burns as Consuelo;
Clive Revill as Garcia;
Carolyn Seymour as Dolores;
Eduardo Noriega as Don Francisco from San Jose;
Jorge Russek as Don Fernando from San Diego;
Eduardo Alcaraz as Don Jose from San Bernardino;
Carlos Bravo y Fernandez as Don Luis Obisbo from Bakersfield;
Roberto Dumont as Ferraro; Jorge Bolio as Pablito