Search - Zorro: The Bold Caballero on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1936 DVD Release: 06/24/2008 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 7 mins Studio: Alpha Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Adventure, Swashbuckler, Spaghetti Western

The Bold Caballero, Republic Pictures' first color film, was also the first talkie version of the "Zorro" legend (as originally set down by Johnston McCulley in The Curse of Capistrano). Robert Livingston essays the dual role of foppish Spanish-Californian aristocrat Don Diego, who when the necessity arises dons the mask and black cape of righter-of-wrongs Zorro. As usual, the Z-man spends his time defending the California peasantry from the wicked machinations of the corrupt, quasi-fascistic commandante (Sig Rumann), who has murdered the provincial governor and shifted the blame to Zorro. The film contains such marvelous set-pieces as Diego's advice to the leering commandante as to how to romance the fair Isabella (Heather Angel), and a bizarre "drag" scene in which the hero disguises himself as the heroine's duenna. Alas, current prints of The Bold Caballero are available only in black and white. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Robert Livingston - Zorro
Heather Angel - Isabella
Sig Rumann - Commandante
Ian Wolfe - Priest
Emily Fitzroy - Duenna