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  Zorro (1957) (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
1-22 6 Mar 58 The Unmasking of Zorro 23.
1-28 17 Apr 58 Zorro by Proxy 29.
2- 8 27 Nov 58 Zorro and the Flag of Truce 48.
www.epguides.com /Zorro_1957   (885 words)

  
  Zorro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Depending on the situation Zorro rode one of two trusty mounts, one fl (Tornado) and one white (Phantom).
The conflict in Zorro was a simple distillation: a decadent, militaristic monarchy which exercised a corrupt, greedy rule over simple, God-loving folk versus the mysterious, altruistic defender of honesty and virtue.
During the two years that Zorro ran on ABC, the Disney merchandising juggernaut generated millions in additional income and kept the profile of the program high, especially with children.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Z/htmlZ/zorro/zorro.htm   (758 words)

  
 The Zorro Legend Through The Years
The first type of Zorro story is when the title character is the original Zorro himself and the story is the retelling of or a variation of the original legend.
The second type of Zorro story is when the title character is either a direct descendant of the original Zorro or is someone who has heard of the legend and takes on the mask of Zorro.
Zorro faces the loss of his family as a group of religious fanatics threaten the statehood of California.
www.geocities.com /thezorrolegend   (1026 words)

  
 The Zorro Chronology
Zorro becomes Montero's enemy and Diego becomes Montero's rival for the affections of a woman named Esperanza.
Adopting the guise of Zorro, he thwarts a gang of villains who are plotting to gain control of the new railroad under construction.
Don Miguel says that James is the last living descendant of the original Zorro, but it is possible that he doesn't count the Meredith, Stewart and Mason branches of the family since they do not carry the de la Vega name.
www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Zorro.htm   (2319 words)

  
 Zorro Summary
Zorro's first foray onto the big screen came when popular actor Douglas Fairbanks, on his honeymoon with Mary Pickford, read "The Curse of Capistrano." He and Pickford chose that story to kick off their new film studio, United Artists, and in 1920 released it as The Mark of Zorro.
According to Allende's story, the future Zorro was a mestizo born in the 1790s in Alta California, son of the Asturian Captain Don Alejandro de la Vega and a native woman warrior, Toypurnia.
Zorro breaks his leg just before he was to set out on an adventure, and sends his gay twin brother, a master with the whip, in his stead.
www.bookrags.com /Zorro   (2826 words)

  
 Petfinder PetNotes
Zorro is declawed and estimated to be between 2 and 3 years old.
Zorro is thankful that his buddies have claws and helped keep Zorro safe, after he was tossed outdoors, since he doesn’t have his front claws to use to defend himself.
Zorro is a laid back cuddle bug, and he loves to purr.
www.petfinder.com /pet.cgi?action=2&pet=4979375&adTarget=&SessionID=437916f3507f3a42-app3&display=&preview=1&row=0&tmpl=&stat=   (440 words)

  
 Zorro's Story
I asked them to send me Zorro's story and that I would post it so that perhaps, just maybe, other feline caretakers will read it and not be shamed (scared) into vaccinating their cat for more than what it needs.
The next day, Zorro was asking a little strange, but we attributed this to him having a small reaction to the vaccines - he was usually a little down a day of two after getting a 4-in-1 shot, so we didn't make out of it.
The doctor assured us that Zorro would get the proper care in the hospital, that they'd get the test results back to see if he had pneumonia or bronchitis or whatever it was and that Zorro would get antibiotics if he needed them.
www.blakkatz.com /zorro.html   (2772 words)

  
 zorroteam | Zorro Team | Zorro Team free arcade game | zorroteam flash game | play Zorro Team at gamezhero.com
Zorro Firemen defend the city from the fire.
Zorro Doctors treat the population from all the illnesses.
You aim is to help Zorro Team to accomplish their functions for the prosperity and safety of the city.
www.gamezhero.com /online-games/arcade-games/zorroteam-arcade.html   (286 words)

  
 The Legend of Zorro - Rotten Tomatoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Zorro can survive a lot of things, but it looks like he can't survive marriage.
This overproduced, sporadically entertaining sequel to The Mask of Zorro strives so hard to relate to contemporary audiences that it loses all sense of itself as a period piece.
The Legend of Zorro is not only a generic actioner, it's a perfect example of a movie with two leads interested only in the number of zeros on their paychecks.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/legend_of_zorro   (1075 words)

  
 Walt Disney's Zorro - 1957 to 1959
As Zorro works to recover the stolen gunpowder and jewels, the Eagle himself arrives in Los Angeles to oversee the final stages of his plan.
Zorro must find a way to prevent the Eagle from seizing control of the pueblo.
The Walt Disney Zorro series is the first version of Zorro to have Don Diego pose as an inept swordsman as part of his cover.
www.geocities.com /thezorrolegend/disneyzorro/disneyzorro.html   (800 words)

  
 Zorro - Just Adventure + Review
Zorro's first task was to sneak up on a sleeping guard.
I went into stealth Zorro mode, only to get into a severe fight with my camera, trying to line it up so I could see the enemy guard positions and myself sneaking at the same time.
Zorro had a wide variety of moves, but due to the poor camera controls and the level design, I never felt they were used as fully as Laura Croft would in any Tomb Raider title.
www.justadventure.com /reviews/Zorro/Zorro.shtm   (743 words)

  
 The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Fairbanks’s Zorro is well known to his enemies as a defender of priests and natives; as a bombastic sargeant eager to track down the elusive Zorro is told, "Pick on a priest or a native, and —; presto!
Zorro!" We also see a priest help Zorro elude pursuing troopers, apparently even providing him with a robe to enable him to pass for a monk.
The Mark of Zorro establishes the pattern for future caped crusaders with dual identities, notably Superman and Batman, the latter of which in particular was clearly influenced by the legend of Zorro.
decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1831   (1027 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Books
But her style is part of the story in Zorro, a tale that would have been at home in the long-gone pulps, where Allende would have been the perfect serialized writer-for-hire.
Zorro begins during Spanish colonial times in California, with the meeting of Diego de la Vega's parents: his father, Captain Alejandro de la Vega, a Spanish soldier, and his mother, the half-Spanish, half-American Indian Regina, née Toypurnia.
It is clear that Allende became enamored of Zorro, and she has succeeded in making him her own character, so much so that it will be difficult for another novelist to take up the cape, mask, and sword of Zorro in her wake.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_3755704,00.html   (721 words)

  
 Zorro and me | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
When the owner of the rights to Zorro asked one of Chile's most respected novelists to write a book about his hero, she was almost insulted.
Zorro has only his own skills." She prefers not to refer to the job as a commission.
The story of Zorro was hers to invent, and she applied the techniques she uses for her most intimate memoirs.
arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1486291,00.html   (1640 words)

  
 Zorro TV Show - Zorro Television Show - TV.com
In "The Mark of Zorro" starring Douglas Fairbanks (1920), and later a remake starring Tyrone Power, Zorro proved that he was not limited to novels.
Though thwarted by Zorro, he recognizes the fencing style as Diego's and tries to convince Sgt. Garcia that Diego is Zorro.
Zorro (1981) is a cartoon about a man who fights crime and saves the day.
www.tv.com /zorro/show/281/summary.html   (812 words)

  
 The Mask of Zorro
Early in the story, Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins as the original Zorro) is tracked down by his powerful arch-rival, Don Rafael Montero, a scheming politician who imprisons Don Diego and steals his baby daughter to raise as his own.
Zorro also cuts a woman's clothing from her body with his sword (her long hair and clever camera angles obscure her nudity).
Hiding in a church, young Zorro tells a woman confessing lust, "The only sin would be to deny what your heart truly feels." Disappointing.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000123.cfm   (401 words)

  
 Zorro
Curse ended with Zorro unmasking (in the second to last chapter), and revealing to everyone in the pueblo of Los Angeles, as well as the readers, that the Fox was Don Diego.
McCulley would continue to write Zorro stories on and off until his death in 1958, the year after the Walt Disney tv series which made his character a world-wide phenomenon debuted.
Zorro made it to television in 1957, when Walt Disney cast Guy Williams in the part.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /z/zorro.htm   (1636 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Zorro: A Novel: Books: Isabel Allende   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Allende's lively retelling of the Zorro legend reads as effortlessly as the hero himself might slice his trademark "Z" on the wall with a flash of his sword.
It does have some flaws, the biggest of which is that the alter ego of Zorro, Diego de la Vega, camouflages the hero behind a semblance of weakness which was very credible for all of us reading the comic or watching the TV show.
Diego and Zorro flow seamlessly into each other and even though the characters match, one ends up with the feeling that the author portrays the Zorro of the last two movies more than she does the fl and white hero of the silver screen.
www.amazon.com /Zorro-Novel-Isabel-Allende/dp/0060778970   (2064 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Zorro: Books: Isabel Allende   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Although Zorro’s early years tend to follow the arc of most adventure tales, Allende leavens the story’s predictability with her gentle wit.
Just as Zorro and his friends rescue the suffering and the unfairly imprisoned, the narrator rescues the narrative whenever it seems at risk of sinking under the weight of heroic predictability.
I do so with a light heart since you have read this far.” Allende knows just when to give us a wink, as it were, across the centuries, ensuring our continuing commitment to her revisionist version of an old, but never tired, tale of heroism and the pursuit of justice.
www.amazon.ca /Zorro-Isabel-Allende/dp/0060778970   (1787 words)

  
 Culture Clash's ZORRO IN HELL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The legendary masked hero rode out of the pages of pulp fiction, tumbled into Tinseltown's image machine and transcended the barriers of class, race and ethnicity to become a hero for the oppressed in every land.
Zorro In Hell is for mature audiences: it contains adult language and adult situations.
Post Show Reaction is an opportunity for audience members to meet for an informal discussion in order to share their personal reactions to the themes and issues addressed in the production.
www.lajollaplayhouse.com /shows/2006season/zorro.htm   (504 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - New stories unmask Zorro's abiding allure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Zorro, the fictional 19th-century masked bandit famous for fighting social injustice and for slashing a "Z" with his sword, is still making his mark on popular culture.
Zorro, which is the Spanish word for fox, was created in 1919 by pulp-fiction writer Johnston McCulley, who went on to write 75 novels and short stories about the fl-caped hero.
But Zorro gained perhaps his greatest popularity in a 1950s TV series produced by Walt Disney and starring Guy Williams.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-05-02-zorro_x.htm   (509 words)

  
 The Legend of Zorro (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Continuity: When Zorro rips off a part of his sleeve to make a mask in the next shot the sleeve is repaired again.
The athleticism of Zorro is pretty impressive too.
Lots of leaps, flips, and creative uses of his whip.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0386140   (473 words)

  
 Filmtracks: The Mask of Zorro (James Horner)
In structure, orchestrations, and theme, The Mask of Zorro is a Hispanic version of Horner's 1988 epic, Willow.
The scope of The Mask of Zorro's score is broad, but it never once loses the flamenco element that, combined with the symphony, makes it such a good tribute to Newman, and ultimately, a perfect score for the film.
The training scene, track 5, has a different type of spirit --it is creative and smart in its use of the flamenco dancers and soloists.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/mask_zorro.html   (899 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Zorro by Isabelle Allende
Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins.
Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.
With loyal Bernardo at his side, Zorro hones his fantastic skills, evolves into a noble hero and returns to California to reclaim his family's estate in a breathtaking duel.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060778970-0   (1029 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Zorro, by Isabel Allende, Hardcover
Allende's retelling of Zorro displays her essential belief that the fabric of the story-the making of the man-is as important as the actions.
Allende's Zorro is not quite the violent, swashbuckling rogue that Johnston McCulley created in his serial potboilers, but this Zorro doesn't have to be for his character to be compelling.
Allende (Daughter of Fortune) is a beguiling storyteller, and Zorro provides a rich palate for her customary embellishments.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Lf4tSByA9N&isbn=0060778970&itm=1   (1523 words)

  
 The Society of the Irish Brigade - The REAL Zorro
The character of Zorro, and his alter-ego Don Diego de la Vega, hit the big screen in 1920, embodied by Douglas Fairbanks who created a sensation in The Mark of Zorro, an adaptation of “The Curse of the Capistrano,” which today remains as one of the great classics of the silent era.
Zorro was a character born for serial treatment, and Republic wasted no time in making the twelve chapter film serial Zorro Rides Again, which was followed by eight more Zorro serials over the next five years.
In the 1980s, Zorro continued to create new generations of fans with the animated series The New Adventures of Zorro, which aired on CBS Saturday mornings from 1981-1983.
home.earthlink.net /~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib6.html   (948 words)

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