Zorro, the Gay Blade
(1981)

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When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, Don Diego Vega becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs.
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George Hamilton hams it up shamelessly playing the legendary Zorro's twin sons — one a dashing, macho sword-fighter, the other a limp-wristed queen — in a witless swashbuckling parody. When villainous Ron Liebman threatens the peace of a Mexican village, both brothers swish into action and the cheap laughs come thin and slow. Even the set piece of everyone turning up at a masked ball disguised as Zorro is off-handedly thrown away by director Peter Medak who clearly doesn't have a clue when it comes to comedy.
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