Zorro's Fighting Legion

#zorro #cliffhanger #republicserial
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui, emerges and attacks the gold trade of the Republic of Mexico, intent on becoming Emperor. A man named Francisco is put in charge of a fighting legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the gold; he is attacked by men working for Don Del Oro. Francisco's partner recognizes Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega. Francisco asks Diego, as Zorro, to take over the fighting legion and defeat Don Del Oro.

[@maryknight3405]

Back in the 70's, our local PBS station had this on as a filler after a show I really liked. I watched for 11 weeks in a row, wanting to know what happened... then I realized that our family vacation was starting and I would never see chapter 12. Finally, after all these years, I am going to see the ending of this serial. Thank you for posting this.. a childhood mystery solved!

[@silentxero5955]

I absolutely love this serial, and am so happy to have found it on DVD and the awesome KZbinr who has streamed it!! Thank you 😊

[@danielokeefe467]

The Legion not only sword fights and shoots, they sing as they ride into battle! From Fairbanks to Banderas, Zorro always works on the screen.

[@ReneDelPrado]

What I liked best about this outstanding Serial was the superb music score by William Lava.

[@Moonlightshadow68]

❤❤❤ I'm so in love with this Zorro! He's the most authentic and best ever ... Handsome, charismatic, intelligent, clever, funny and charming 😍🔥 Even back when i was 14, i'd sleepless nights because of him and now 40 years later he's giving me heartache again! 😭 The way he moves and that incredibly beautiful voice ... Heaven help me!...i'm dying!!! 😩😩😩 Oh, please Volita, can we swap our lives? 🙏🙏🙏

[@marcybrooks3425]

I've been a Zorro fan since a kid in the late 50's. This is new to me also. Thanks!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

More Zorro to come, including the female Zorro.

[@redneckrabbet5212]

Rumor all dead if there were any alive I would honor them and take care of them but nobody around here is going to take care of them are you going to take care of her yes the Democrats will kill them off just to make money and I am a Republican and I stand for United States my good friends the old people I don't want people to die I want to make your life long I do exactly as God said to do make all human beings especially ready for God for the time has come when we all have to got to live together who are you to tell me this is not right

[@robertbrown-qf8xy]

Thanks very much for sharing these gems!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

My pleasure. Glad you are enjoying them.

[@Spielfigur75]

Zorro on a white horse? Thought it was "King", the legendary white horse of Zorro. This one is "Sheik", a very easily recognizable horse with its unique mottling on the face. And Reed Hadley as Zorro is just epic

[@kennethjohnson6319]

This is my all time favorite cliff hangers zorro fighting Legion it has the best theme song of all time it has action suspense and adventure

[@leafyutube]

The actor playing zorro is rock solid. He should have been a protagonist in more serials.

[@robertszvetics210]

HE WAS REED HADLEY WHO WENT ON TO BE ON RACKET SQUAD FOR YEARS HE HAD A GREAT VOICE.

[@Spielfigur75]

Robert is right! Reed Hadley had a GREAT voice. He also used to be a radio actor and he did a lot of films for the military as narrator

[@iykyk-ru2]

Whoa! I have watched a lot of serials, esp from Republic, and I had never heard of this one. Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to settling down this weekend to binge on this!

[@henrydevens5937]

How can you not know about one of Republic’s best serials ever!

[@iykyk-ru2]

@@henrydevens5937 stuff happens obviously

[@leafyutube]

Ok, after binge watching serials for a month, I think this serial is my second favorite. Here's my top 10 so far: 1. Adventures of Captain Marvel 2. Zorro's Fighting Legion 3. Phantom Empire 4. Daredevils of the Red Circle 5. Zorro Rides Again 6. Jungle Girl 7. Lone Ranger 8. Lone Ranger Rides Again 9. Spy Smasher 10. Fighting Devil Dogs

[@AtomicAgePictures]

That's a pretty good list. Personal I would put Spy Smasher and The Masked Marvel at the top. I'm a suckered for the war time serials.

[@leafyutube]

@@AtomicAgePictures Yeah I enjoyed both of those serials as well.

[@leafyutube]

@@AtomicAgePictures I was a little disappointed in Batman. It was solid but I enjoyed the ones I mentioned more.

[@nickfarmer88]

Nothing from the Rocketman trilogy??

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Unfortunately they are all still covered under copyright because they were edited into feature films for television in the 1960s.

[@ritchiehowell8275]

An excellent Serial and definitely my favourite. Brings happy memories for me when i used to show it on a Saturday Morning for the Kids in Oswestry.

[@alandhopewell]

Back in the late Seventies, the local (Cleveland Ohio) ABC affiliate ran old Republic serials at one am, an episode at a time; this was one of my favorites.

[@fatheroflatus]

That twangy bowstring is a hoot.

[@blackheron7388]

It IS a Hoot!!!! lol

[@fatheroflatus]

I'm surprised when they tamped down the load in their firearms, the ram didn't make a sound like a slide whistle.

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

I remember the Zorro that had Guy Williams playing Zorro! Guy Williams was dreamy looking, and a real fox!!

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

Zorros' horse looks a lot like Silver of The Lone Ranger!!

[@Spielfigur75]

And King! From close you will realize that this horse has a unique face. There's a "C" shaped spot right under it's left eye. This horse's name is Sheik, a gorgeous animal

[@sittinknittin4546]

Thanks for this Zorro series. Very entertaining. 🤺🤺🤺

[@blancatirado576]

Great movie thanks for posting

[@schoollunchratings8298]

I've owned this on dvd for so many years that I lost count

[@josephfinnegan151]

182,756 View's So Far: Movie Serial: (1939). Zorro's Fighting Legion. 12 Chapters. (64th Available Film Serial of the 1930s). Stars: Sheila Darcy and Helen Mitchell. Chapters 1 and 2. Wednesday, October 16 - 2024. End: 0:4

[@galeschool]

At 3:23:40, Don Del Oro shoots the other two council members and proclaims "Now my identity will never be known". Did he forget that Zorro just exposed his identity to the entire council?

[@leafyutube]

@15:02 Diego's character is similar to Tyrone Power in 'Mark of Zorro' done a year later. He too was very fatigued. lol

[@doreathasmithalbright7476]

ENJOYED !! 😊😊

[@realx1311]

Great series

[@davidsigalow7349]

This was a good serial - decent production values, good action, good stunt work and very little padding.

[@jamescampbell39]

and even in the 21st century nothing has changed in Mexico.

[@davidjones4601]

i love these old movies i watched them when i was little still love them to this day

[@plushiebug5993]

Oh, joy! I loved this serial when I finally caught up with it in the early 1980s, and look forward to running it all the way through again, as soon as I can. Thank you so much for making it available!

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

Oh, I think that "The Lone Rangers' Theme Song," is the best of all time !! I really do like Zorros' Theme Song too!

[@strangelyfamiliar1729]

Zorros horse is so magnificent looking! Btw ... 1:11:14 ... "Look!"🤣

[@Spielfigur75]

Agreed. Unique face. It's name is Sheik the horse

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

I also liked the Theme Song of the T.V. Show "BONANZA," with Lorne Green, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker & Little Joe! That was a great program too!

[@claycoates5056]

this is a story of the pars that some want us to forget the government of Mexico then was not part of California this was a fight of the Spanish Government and Californios All over the TAXES

[@leafyutube]

Best musical score of any zorro movie ever made.

[@dwayneholmes9636]

Bill Lava did some Looney Tunes cartoons.

[@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ]

Was Zorro first appearance different from the icon black costume?

[@catherinebernal4791]

I love em,

[@nickfarmer88]

Boy, Reed Hadley played the mess out of this role.

[@luisgarza3203]

Nice Serial

[@elchoya8770]

love reed hadleys voice!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Hadley was the narrator for many of the atomic testing Government films of the 1950s, and even appears on camera on the deck of one of the ships for the first hydrogen bomb test. In fact he work so frequently, that he had to be given a top secret clearance.

[@amirahsadre4570]

Interesting stories. I still think Guy Williams was the best Zorro.

[@blackheron7388]

Zorro Forever

[@luisalbertopulgarinalvarez5356]

estas series llegaron a colombia, y las vi siendo muy joven hojala con sub esp. latino

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

If they can find the Zorro series that had Guy Williams playing the part of Zorro, you'll see what I mean. Now there was some serious dreamy eye candy for sure!! I also think that I liked the Theme Music better with Guy Williams!!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Yes I have the guy Williams Zorro series on DVD from the Disney archive. However of course that program is still copyrighted and I can't post it.

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

@@AtomicAgePictures Oh boy you lucky guy!! I'll have to get that too! Thank you so much for letting me know!

[@AtomicAgePictures]

You should be aware that it is out of print so you'll have to find it used. Sometimes you can find it on eBay but it's usually pretty expensive.

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

@@AtomicAgePictures Oh hi again! Anything worth while is usually expensive, right! Hey do you remember the T.V. Series "Rawhide"? That music and the guy that sang the song "Rawhide" was amazing too! My Dad knew him. It was a short name as I recall, but man, what a powerful voice he had!!

[@chirellealanalooney8454]

@@AtomicAgePictures Hi again. I'm glad that I grew up in an era that had really good stuff on T.V. back then, instead of the junk they're showing nowadays.

[@christianjesus6983]

Meeeeenhn I love Des Corp zoro

[@magnvm100]

What year was made this movie?

[@AtomicAgePictures]

1939

[@leafyutube]

Did don del oro exist?

[@nickmele9968]

Who is Don DiLoro??????

[@likentiendvdvore2344]

Quelqu’un serait dire en quelle année ce film est sorti svp ?. Merci !.😉

[@renegrand9591]

en 1939

[@Shagamaw-100]

They just don't make movies like they used to now do they?

[@dave_minado]

9:28 1:11:29

[@Ammeeeeeeer]

Oh bless KZbin's mysterious algorithm for randomly suggesting this to me 🤩

[@AtomicAgePictures]

Check out the other serials here on our channel.

[@javiermonroy3541]

Por favor atomic traduce lo a español latino gracias

[@AtomicAgePictures]

I'm sorry I don't have access to Spanish subtitles for this film, and I don't speak Spanish, so I would no be able to translate it myself.

[@vernwallen4246]

"out of the nite when the full moon is brite comes a horseman known as Zero".😂😂😂🐴🐴🐴🐴

[@oltimalaj4543]

Zorro and his legion will stop the don de loro the villan of indians zorro and is legion look like robin hood merry men

[@richardwells1350]

Of course its silver

[@Scrimjer]

Wow the acting is horrible in this....

[@AtomicAgePictures]

They didn't want them good, they wanted them Thursday! 😉