Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)

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Country: Mexico, USA
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1981-07-17
Director: Peter Medak
Writers: Hal Dresner , Greg Alt , Don Moriarty , Bob Randall
Language: English | Spanish
Stars: George Hamilton , George Hamilton , Lauren Hutton , Brenda Vaccaro , Ron Leibman , Donovan Scott , James Booth , Helen Burns , Clive Revill , Carolyn Seymour , Eduardo Noriega
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: 3 wins & 2 nominations
AKA: La Grande Zorro (France, French Republic) , Zorro Swings Again. (Australia) , Estos zorros locos, locos, locos (Spain) , La grande Zorro (Canada) , O Grande Zorro (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , ゾロ (Japan) , La última locura de Zorro (Mexico) , Zorro mit der heißen Klinge , As Duas Faces de Zorro (Brazil) , Zorro: The Gay Blade , Zorro mezzo e mezzo (Italy) , Zorro, Entre a Espada e as Plumas (Brazil) , Z-Z-Zorro! (Finland) , La última locura de Zorro (Argentina) , Zorro: The Gay Blade (Canada) , El Zorro rosa (Venezuela) , Zorro mit der heißen Klinge (Germany) , La última locura del Zorro (Venezuela) , Zorro: The Gay Blade (United Kingdom) , Zorro: The Gay Blade (United States of America) , Zorro, a penge (Hungary) , Zorro, ostrze szpady (Poland) , Зорро, голубой клинок
Plot: 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 continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, his long-lost twin brother Ramon arrives to visit. Bunny was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, for he is flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but opts make changes in the established Zorro persona. Bunny becomes "the Gay Blade," and his new costumes are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored. He 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 Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.
IMDB:tt0083366