ZORRO THE FOX

El Zorro – Italian title

Zorro, O Justiceiro Mascarado – Brazilian title

Zorro – Czechoslovakian title

Zorro le renard – French title

Zorro, de Mann mit der Peitsche – German title

I epistrofi tou Zorro – Greek title

La volpe – Spanish title

La espada del Zorro – Spanish title

Zorro the Fox – English title

A 1968 Italian production [Magic Film (Rome)]

Producer: Marino Carpano

Director: Guido Zurli

Story: Angelo Sangermano, Giuliano Simonetti

Screenplay: Guido Leoni, Ambrogio Molteni, Angelo Sangermano, Guiudo Zurli

Cinematography: Franco Delli Colli [Eastmancolor]

Music: Gino Peguri

Running time: 89 minutes

Cast:

Don Diego di Alcantara/Zorro – George Ardisson (Giorgio Ardisson)

Don Pedro – Jack Stuart (Giacomo Rossi Stuart)

Donna Isabella – Femi Benussi

Sergeant Gomez – Pedro Sanchez (Ignazio Spalla)

Donna Inez – Grazia Fei (Maria Pani)

John Gardener – Paolo Todisco

Padre Xavier – Andrea Scotti

Don Gil – Consalvo Dell’Arti

Aristocrat – Riccardo Pizzuti

Alcalde Don Jaimez - Gustavo D’Arpe

Garcia Rodriguez – Aldo Marianecci

Maid – Lina Franchi

Stunts – Franco Moruzzi

With: Artemio Antonini, Spartaco Battisti, Gippo Leone, Aldo Marianecci, Gianni Pulone (Giovanni Pulone), Gualtiero Rispoli, Juan Vallejo (Juan Valejo), Giancarlo Vignozzi, Evaristo Maran

Don Pedro, captain of the guard, and the Alcalde Don Jaimez, want to bring together the provinces ot San Jaun and Santa Maria into one province, to be the largest of Mexico. Santa Maria del Consuelo is trying to break the resistance of the nobles opposed to their aims.  They all suspect, rightfully so, that Zorro, a tenacious opponent and staunch defender of the people, is hiding among them, Don Pedro sets a trap for him. After having spread the word that a wagon load of money taken from the people will be transported without an escort, the captain of the guard gathers all the nobles of Santa Maria del Consuelo the home of the Alcade: if the wagon is attacked then the citizen who is absent will be identified as Zorro. But Zorro has a ploy to foil the plan of Don Pedro, who then orders that the nobles be stopped. Zorro penetrates the prison disguised as a friar, where he frees the prisoners, then, with the help of the population, he faces Don Pedro and his soldiers and manages to kill the captain of the guards.