InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

poe426 Perhaps because it was silent (and the accents nonexistent), the 1920 version of THE MARK OF ZORRO with Douglas Fairbanks still plays well. When Sound entered the Picture (so to speak), the lack of accents was suddenly made noticeable- so the producers of the Zorro serials opted to shift focus to one of his descendants. ZORROR RIDES AGAIN boasted some great action, but the action was actually undercut by a fairly standard storyline (and "El Lobo's" lack of an accent didn't help matters, either). The most telling moment of all, however, comes at serial's end when Zorro's HORSE actually takes out the bad guy... ZORRO'S FIGHTING LEGION was better (one of the stunts was impressive enough to warrant its "re-enactment" in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, decades later), but the best would probably have to be ZORRO'S BLACK WHIP (which must have set the record for the greatest number of times a stock sequence was used during a single serial- though it should be pointed out that at least ONE chapter of almost every single serial was comprised of stock footage from an earlier chapter). While all three of these serials lack the Fairbanks flair, all three are worth a look.

dbborroughs Zorro is gone and replaced by the Black Whip. Its 1880 something and one of the territories in the American west wants statehood to bring law and order but a band of outlaws doesn't want it. So the black whip rides to the rescue. At first its the publisher of the paper in disguise but when he dies his sister takes on the role. Good western serial and one of the few real action ones with a woman in the lead. Linda Sterling makes a dynamite action queen, even if she was doubled for most of the action. If there is a flaw it's that its that Republic was moving toward the machine like precision in the construction of their serials. The construction is Spartan and there is nothing extraneous anywhere so things can feel rather sparse. You can almost guess what the cliffhanger is going to be (especially if you've seen other serials since many are lifted from others in the Republic canon). Still its a very good serial, better if you aren't tearing through a great number in a short period them like I am.

lastliberal I have no idea how Zorro got to Idaho. Every Zorro fan knows that he never left California. That's not the only thing different about this film - Zorro is a woman! ¡Ay, caramba! Before television, you went to the theater to see "episodes" There were many serials during the 30's and 40's, with a brief revival in the 50's. Zorro was among them. Zorro Rides Again (1937) with John Carroll as the disguised, legendary 19th century title character, the 12-chapter Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939), this series, Zorro's Black Whip (1944), Son of Zorro (1947), and Ghost of Zorro (1949) with Clayton Moore in his first masked-western-hero role.Linda Stirling, who plays The Black Whip, was a leading lady of the era and does a great job here in keeping alive the legend of Zorro, even if the setting is far from home.

beejer This serial from Republic is one of a long line of Zorro epics. This one is different in that the the Zorro character is played by the lovely Linda Stirling and the hero by veteran character actor/villain George J Lewis. The chief baddies are played competently by Francis MacDonald and Hal Taliaferro (aka Wally Wales). Roy Barcroft must have been busy.The second unit direction is handled by Yakima Canutt so you know thatyou will be treated to the best stunt work the industry had to offer.With the usual narrow escapes, rides to the rescue, fisticuffs and explosions, this serial is one of the better efforts from the Republic thrill factory.