Posted in Comics, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was understandably geeked when I discovered that there would be a new Zorro comic this year, and written by Matt Wagner, no less. (That it’s by Dynamite, the same company who’ve been releasing the current Lone Ranger comics, which I’ve heard are pretty good, is a plus.) So, naturally, when the first issue came [...]
Posted in Comics, Swashbuckling, Zorro on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sorry for so much comics coverage recently, I try to deal pretty evenly with comic books and… uh, book books.
Anyway, I remember there being a Zorro comic sometime in the 90’s that I looked at for about two seconds before being real disappointed with it, what’s more, there have been some very bad uses of [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Phew, ok, so it’s been awhile since I last worked on my gargantuan undertaking to cover (most of) the breadth of the Zorro mythos, but I guess that’s kinda fitting considering that I’m also skipping ahead nearly fifty years from the last part that I covered.
But first of all, for those who have no idea [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Tyrone Power, Zorro on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And once again (finally) we return to my delightfully (ahem) long-winded look at the growth of the Zorro character as a legend and a franchise. You can read everything so far here, here, aaaaand here.
Between the silent exploits of Douglas Fairbanks and 1940’s remake of The Mark of Zorro there were a good number of [...]
Posted in Fairbanks, Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
And so, we have seen here and here how the character of Zorro rollicked into pop culture fame in the early years of the 20th century. Then, five years after Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was catapulted from stardom to superstardom by The Mark of Zorro, he decided to return to the character–sort of.
1925’s Don Q, Son [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Fairbanks, Movies, Pimpernel, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I certainly didn’t know that people had taken to posting public domain movies up on Google Video, but now that I do I figured I’d point it out.
First of all, the 1934 Scarlet Pimpernel that I mentioned the other day can be watched for free right here. Now, normally my problem with something like [...]
Posted in Fairbanks, Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve already covered the novel to which the ever-so-classic Zorro character owes his creation, but it really wasn’t until that same novel got into the hands of one Douglas Fairbanks Sr. that the masked hero truly took off. I know that this is generally a book blog, but bear with me… it’s a great movie.
Before [...]
Posted in Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
This is the first in what will continue to be something of a series, taking a look at one of the greatest swashbuckler heroes of all time: Zorro. I plan to delve into a good number of his various iterations throughout books and film–although only the ones that I feel like bothering with, otherwise we’ll [...]
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