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Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) 5.6
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 ... See full summary » Director:Peter Medak |
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Cast
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Don Diego Vega /
Zorro /
Bunny Wigglesworth /
The Gay Blade /
Ramon Vega
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Charlotte Taylor Wilson
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Florinda
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Paco
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Velasquez
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Helen Burns | ... |
Consuelo
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Garcia
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Dolores
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Eduardo Noriega | ... |
Don Francisco from San Jose
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Jorge Russek | ... |
Don Fernando from San Diego
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Don Jose from San Bernardino
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Carlos Bravo y Fernández | ... |
Don Luis Obisbo from Bakersfield
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Roberto Dumont | ... |
Ferraro
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Jorge Bolio | ... |
Pablito
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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. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte a long-time critic of Captain ... Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
17 July 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
As Duas Faces de Zorro See more »Company Credits
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Don Diego: My father would be very disappointed in me. To have come all this way and miss my destiny by... a foot.
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The movie's opening prologue read: "The House of Don Diego Vega, Madrid, Spain. 50 years A.Z. (after Zorro)". See more »Goofs
When Zorro uses a bull whip to cut his name in the wall, he needed 13 strokes of the whip to do it. Only ten cracks of the whip are heard. See more »Quotes
[after spraining his ankle]Don Diego: My father would be very disappointed in me. To have come all this way and miss my destiny by... a foot.
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It is surprising to me that more people don't know about this picture, since Zorro the Gay Blade is one of the great funny movies of all time. It is certainly George Hamilton's most memorable movie, an over-the-top spoof that never takes itself too seriously. This is NOT Jerry Lewis or the Three Stooges, but an entertaining social commentary written and performed as slapstick. Of course they do all of it firmly tongue-in-cheek.
It does seem that a few people just don't get it. Well, to each his own. But if you liked Hamilton's Love at First Bite or most of the work of Mel Brooks, then this movie is for you. Personally, it reminds me of Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and the Austin Powers movies. The writing is witty and the one liners are things you will remember and repeat for years. If you haven't seen this one, then you don't know what you are missing.