Zorro had a countless variants in so popular hero at Spanish California, although this Italian production put aside the famous Don Diego de la Vega, Seargent Garcia, Corporal Reyes and the mute Bernardo to my dismay, It's a crying shame take out so marvelous characters who brightened up so wonder series and some movies that containing some names above.
The condensed story starts when California was ruled by the greedy governor Don Alvarez (Arturo Dominici) whom make a previous deal with a wealthy farmer Don Miguel (Edoardo Toniolo) over a future marriage between his young daughter Isabel (Dina Di Santis) with the Don Alvarez's son Luis (Charles Borromel) when both will be able to do that, the time goes by and Isabel goes back from Spain after her study there, meanwhile Luis became in awful bad manners man, womanizer and heartless, in the meantime reach there from Spain Don Alvarez's nephew Don Ramiro (Howard Ross) a kind of polished gentleman fending off any kind of violence and avoid of sword-fighting due he disliked such thing whatsoever.
Don Ramiro stays at his uncle's shadows dealing with papers and documents whilst received a task from his uncle, take a look in his rebel son over the young ladies on the province also ensure that Luis doesn't drink too much causing riots whenever he stays together his rogue sidekick Cobra ( Nello Pazzafini), among the sprees over the helpless people appears Zorro often clashing with Luis and Cobra's thugs upholding the weak and oppressed citizens, worst seeing such savageness from his forthcoming Isabel's husband, Don Miguel decides break the deal one-sidedly for good sending his daughter to a nunnery for a while, angering Don Alvarez in a dangerous way.
Well Zorro Il Ribelle I'd first watched in a cheap theater in 1979 in my wanders years, now making a rereading of it on Youtube in Italian language and no subtitles much better that my original VHS copy that I found in a second hand store fifteen years before, not memorable at all, just another western spaghetti version of Zorro, Howard Ross is an average actor instead of the beauty blonde Dina Di Santis often with those well-groomed hair even on the bed, in a nutshell this Zorro version let it see easily if you weren't too much picky.
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First watch: 1979 / How many: 3 / Source: Theatre-VHS-Youtube / Rating: 5.5.
