Robert Livingston stars in what is probably the first color Zorro film and a film that predates the release of the classic Tyrone Powers film. The film begins with Zorro captured but still masked being lead into the village square when word reached the evil commandante of the garrison that Spain has sent a new governor. In the confusion Zorro escapes and the military is once more on the prowl for the masked avenger. One of the lesser Zorro films, its clear this was made to show off the Magnacolor process and be a spectacle of some sort (There are a couple of songs, but no big numbers). There's lost of romance and flashy costumes but the action adventure seems to be skimped on. Its good but not great and certainly not what one thinks of as a Zorro film , especially from Republic Studios who turned out over half a dozen Zorro and Zorro related serials. Worth a look as a rental and if you run across it on cable, but unless you need to see every Zorro movie ever made you don't need to go out of your way to see it.
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