Zorro movies always are better in theory than execution, but this is one of the more enjoyable efforts, because for once, the swashbuckling Spanish superhero is interpreted by the Italians. Therefore, the dish has a slight spaghetti-Western flavor. French screen idol Alain Delon (Le Samouraï) gallops into town as Don Diego, only to see his […]
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Zorro: The Complete Series
As someone whose bookshelf still contains the Penguin Classics edition of Johnston McCulley’s 1919 novel, “The Curse of Capistrano,” as well as a hardback of Isabel Allende’s 2005 “Zorro,” I’m drawn to many adaptations of Mexico’s mysterious, masked rider, no matter the medium. Although it lasted four seasons, Family Channel’s early-’90s television series is not […]