Zorro's Black Whip
1944 film by Spencer Gordon Bennet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 12-chapter film serial by Republic Pictures starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the 1940 20th Century-Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro in order to capitalize on it. Republic was not able to use the character of Zorro himself, however, and despite the title, the hero(ine) is called The Black Whip throughout.
Zorro's Black Whip | |
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Directed by | Spencer Gordon Bennet Wallace Grissell |
Written by | Basil Dickey Jesse Duffy Grant Nelson Joseph Poland Johnston McCulley (Original Zorro Novel) |
Produced by | Ronald Davidson |
Starring | Linda Stirling George J. Lewis Lucien Littlefield Francis McDonald |
Cinematography | Bud Thackery |
Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 12 chapters (182 minutes)[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $134,899 (negative cost: $145,251)[1] |
The serial is set in pre-statehood Idaho, and involves a fight to prevent and ensure statehood by the villains and heroes respectively.
Parts of the serial were reused as stock footage to pad out later serials such as Don Daredevil Rides Again (1951) and Man with the Steel Whip (1954) ā despite the fact that both of those serials had male leads.