Zorro (1975) on Netflix
Diego de la Vega reaches Nueva Aragón as its new governor, a harmless fop, so the corrupt Colonel Huerta sees no threat. In secret he becomes Zorro, helped by the monk Francisco.
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Plot summary
Diego de la Vega, bound home for Spain from Alta California, runs into Miguel de la Serna, an old friend who is to become governor of Nueva Aragón. Diego warns him that greed and hatred rule the province, where Colonel Huerta has replaced Miguel's late uncle Don Fernando. That night Huerta's men kill Miguel, and Diego takes his place, swearing to the dying Miguel that the new governor will never kill. In Nueva Aragón he plays a weak, indecisive fop before the council so that Huerta dismisses him as harmless. With Joaquín, Miguel's mute servant, and Assassin, Don Fernando's Great Dane, he moves among the people and finds them frightened. From Chico, a street urchin, he learns about Zorro, the freedom-loving fox spirit, and takes that black-garbed identity for his own.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zorro (1975)
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- Zorro was one of the first Western-produced films to be screened in the People's Republic of China after the Cultural Revolution; released there in 1978, it was purportedly seen by more than 70 million viewers.
- The film was made in part because Alain Delon, who played Zorro, had enjoyed making the swashbuckler The Black Tulip in 1964 and wanted to make another one.
