Zorro, the Gay Blade | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Medak
Actors: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Donovan Scott
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: $22.99
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 6055
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: D9176D
UPC: 014381917628
EAN: 0014381917628
ASIN: B00005KH2G
Theatrical Release Date: July 17, 1981
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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After having a surprise hit playing Dracula in Love at First Bite, George Hamilton seized the moment and spoofed another movie hero: Zorro. In fact, he plays two characters: the heroic Don Diego, who fights Spanish tyranny in Old California in his secret identity as Zorro, and Diego's long-absent brother, Bunny Wigglesworth, a man totally comfortable with his sexual identity and unafraid of accessorizing the Zorro outfit by rendering it in purple. When the swashbuckler is injured, he turns his sword over to the swishbuckler, who is just as good a swordsman, though a few shades less fiery. Some of the gay humor is heavy-handed, but Hamilton easily handles the comedy demands of the dual roles, and has strong support from Ron Leibman as the chief bad guy. --Marshall Fine
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 Fun November 30, 2008
George Hamiliton is at his best this is a fun movie I watch it often.
 glad to have it back November 18, 2008
i am just to have this back on dvd. though at first i thought it was a bootleg copy. because the cover looked funny and the movie quality is a little suspect. but i am glad to have the film again.
A Zany Zorro! November 9, 2008
This is a wild romp through the mythic story of the Robin Hood of early California. It's totally campy, completely over the top, and never once takes itself seriously - which is why it's so fun.
Spoof Zorro August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
George Hanilton had already spoofed Dracula and the vampire genre in the film Love at First Bite, this time he took his satirical aim at Zorro. He pokes a big finger of 1940's Tyrone Power The Mark of Zorro
Hamilton could have played this Zorro straight and would have made this work. However, in a comedy twist, when his Dom Diego character hurts his foot in an Zorro related accident, he enlisted his long lost brother Ramone (now called Bunny Wigglesworth)(Also played by Hamilton) in his Zorro cause..and the fun begins.
Bunny plays Zorro in many colorful zorro garbs, rather than the normal Zorro basic black. Instead of a sabre he uses a whip. He pokes a more whisher Zorro wit (Note the film's title)
Ron Leibman whine and screams in a germany goosestepping voice as Captain Esteban Pasquale. His nonsensible yelling makes his words almost unhearable to most other than to dogs.
It is a cute send up to the ZORRO mytho..I wish it was currently on DVD to enjoy by the masses
Bennet Pomerantz Audioworld
Tongue in cheek gay humor to keep you laughing. May 27, 2008
This movie was made way before the whole "PC" epidemic, when you could laugh at anything because it was just funny. George Hamilton plays both Zorro and his gay brother. He bounces back forth between a womanizer and an effeminant with hilarious results. The supporting cast are amazing and this movie is still funny 20 something years later, as proved by the laughs of my teenage children. Pick it up and enjoy a comedy the whole family can watch.
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