#walt disney's zorro

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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Guy Williams

ZORRO

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So, I went searching in my WDZ WIP, "The Curse Of Monterrey", and found the passage where Capitán Monastario, having escaped from custody, arrives in Monter(r)ey to see the Governor. And yes, the Capitán is dressed like a bandit LOL This is my very first WDZ fanfic and my favorite alternative fan version of Enrique Monastario.

"Having let his horse, a young bay stallion, go free, Monastario climbed onto the roof of one of the houses on the edge of town, knowing full well that the patrol would not find him. Then, pulling the kerchief from his face, he made himself comfortable and, waiting for darkness to fall, satisfied his hunger with the bread and dried beef he had stored up, inhaling with pleasure the fresh salty air."

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Word Game Wednesday

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I went searching in the WIP for my original sci-fi WIP -- Prime Conditions -- and I found this line about the development of psychic powers on the planet I refer to as Prime:

"I assumed Primes had something different, you know, in their air or water."

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Guy Williams as Zorro (1958)

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Found this very cheap today, it has Alex Toth, Warren Tufts, and probably Francisco Cueto on the cover art

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Vintage Magazine - TV Prevue

Chicago Sun-Times (1959)

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Many many thanks, Ara! 🧡

Some iconic Monastario moments, requested by @donfadrique

Britt Lomond as Captain Enrique Monastario - Zorro, 1957, 1x01.

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Armando Joseph Catalano 1924-1989 naît à New York de parents siciliens immigrés peu avant sa naissance. Il grandit à Little Italy, dans le Bronx, et commence sa carrière en tant que mannequin, notamment pour des marques de cigarettes et de dentifrice. Son agent, Henry Wilson lui change son nom en Guido Armando, puis en Guy Williams. En 1957, à l’âge de 33 ans, Walt Disney le choisit pour incarner Zorro. Guy Williams joue le rôle du justicier masqué pendant 82 épisodes, réalisant lui-même toutes les cascades et les duels sans doublure.

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"If you cannot clothe yourself with the skin of a lion, put on that of a fox. From now on I shall be Zorro, the fox!"- Guy Williams as Don Diego De La Vega, El Zorro

Walt Disney's ZORRO

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Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, and Robert McKim in The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo, 1920)

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, George Periolat, Walt Whitman, Sidney De Gray, Tote De Crow. Screenplay: Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene Miller, based on a magazine story by Johnston McCulley. Cinematography: William C. McGann, Harris Thorpe. Art direction: Edward M. Langley.

Film firsts are usually worth checking out, and The Mark of Zorro is a double first: It's the first appearance of the title character on screen, and it's the first of the genre of films for which Douglas Fairbanks remains best-known, the swashbuckler. Since Fairbanks and co-scenarist Eugene Miller adapted Johnston McCulley's 1919 magazine story, "The Curse of Capistrano," the masked hero has been played by Tyrone Power, Guy Williams (in the Disney TV series), Frank Langella, George Hamilton (in a spoof featuring Zorro's gay twin brother), Alain Delon, and (as the aging Zorro and his hand-picked successor) Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, and appeared in numerous Mexican and European films. The trope of the do-gooder who pretends to be a wimp but turns into a force for justice has its precursor in the Baroness Orczy's play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel and lives on in countless superhero tales, most notably the Clark Kent/Superman story. As the languid fop Don Diego Vega, Fairbanks affects a weary slouch and spends his time doing tricks that involve a handkerchief. When he turns into Zorro, with mask and scarf over his head, he pastes on a little mustache oddly reminiscent of Boris Badenov, and succeeds in taking on the villains with great élan. The film itself begins slowly, with too much exposition crammed into the intertitles, but eventually Fairbanks gets his act together, and the climax of the movie is a hilarious showpiece for his acrobatic moves. He leads the Capistrano constabulary on a merry chase over walls and across rooftops, inevitably tempting them into disaster: He leaps over a pigsty, for example, whereupon the pursuers fall into it. At the end, revealing his secret identity, he wins the hand of Lolita Pulido (Marguerite De La Motte), by saving her family's estate from the clutches of the evil governor (George Periolat) and his henchmen, Capitán Juan Ramon (Robert McKim) and Sgt. Pedro Gonzales (Noah Beery), both of whom get branded with the emblematic Z (though the sergeant gets his only in the seat of his pants). Good fun, once it gets going. 

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Finished watching the first half of the first season of Zorro (1957) and knowing that Walt Disney himself fired the second male lead of the series because "Two guys can't be popular on the same show" makes me absurdly angry. They robbed us the potential homoerotism of endless fencing sessions between Zorro and the Comandant. Even worse, the other half of the season could absolutely redeemed him from his cartoonish villainous stuff.