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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936791877
Format: Black & White, Restored, NTSC, Full Screen
Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
MPN: DISD101865D
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 03, 2009
Running Time: 945 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 11/03/2009 Run time: 945 minutes
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Like Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Disney's Zorro transcends nostalgia. From the thrilling theme song ("Out of the night / When the full moon is bright / Rides the horseman known as Zorroâ¦.") to the lively sword fights and swashbuckling derring-do, this rousing 1957 series has lost none of its entertainment value for old or young. The 39-episode first season, presented in glorious black and white and complete with "be with us next week" teasers, unfolds in three story arcs. The first, Zorro's origin story, is best. The setting is Spanish California in 1820. Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams, like Fess Parker, an unknown actor catapulted to icon status) has been urgently summoned from Spain by his father to return home to Pueblo de Los Angeles, where the tyrannical Capitan Monastario has unleashed a reign of terror and injustice. Diego, a man of action, passes himself off as a bookish man of letters and by night dons a cape and mask to become the outlaw Zorro ("the fox"), champion of the oppressed. The other two story arcs concern a conspiracy to rule Southern California led by the shadowy Eagle.
Zorro was Walt Disney's first prime-time half-hour series and it benefits greatly from Disney's keen eye for casting, storytelling genius, and high production values. The cast includes Henry Calvin as the bumbling and rotund Sergeant Garcia and Gene Sheldon as Diego's trusty, mute right-hand man Bernardo (the two actors were later paired as the Laurel & Hardy-esque characters in Disney's Babes in Toyland). Zorro deftly blends action and comedy in its first season, with no mushy romance to slow things down. The dialogue is at once kid-friendly (younger viewers may appreciate it when in one episode Sergeant Garcia reads a Wanted poster aloud), but not condescending. Diego/Zorro possesses a rapier-like wit with which he handily disarms his foes.
This collectible Walt Disney Treasures set contains rarely seen archival goodies and rarities, including a clip from a 1957 anniversary episode of the Disneyland TV series in which Walt regales the Mouseketeers with a preview of Zorro. There is a featurette about the Zorro legend and the enduring character's various incarnations on the page and screen, and a new-to-home video 1960 two-hour two-parter that features Rita Moreno and Gilbert "The Cisco Kid" Roland as a dashing bandit leader. Fans eager to savor "new dangers and new thrills in the adventurous life of Zorro" should proceed directly to The Complete Second Season. --Donald Liebenson
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Lately Disney is making wrong choices with their shows. Zorro is a well loved series, and very much popular. You'd think that when Disney put this series on dvd, that it would be on sale for 2-4 years or so. I know there is a profit in selling the box set. So why did Disney decided to sell the set for a limited of 30,000??? That makes no sense. The box set came out in Nov 09, and 3-4 months later it's already Out Of Print. Seems pointless to sell the series, and then discontinue it so short of time. ... Read More
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Holy Mackrel there, Zorro! This was released on 3 Nov 09, and within three months is out of print??? No wonder bootleg DVD's of shows like this are proliferating. I can understand outfits like Disney wanting to make limited releases of DVD's to either make them exclusive, or create an aura of urgency to make a quick return on investment through rush purchases, but isn't three months just a bit short? I can't wait until the Third Season is released...for two weeks only. Zero stars, 'cause I never got ... Read More
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The Walt Disney, # 1, TV show is now available. From the 1957-9 season Walt had us "kids" glued to the 'set' every week watching the continuing episodes of Zorro. For those of you who are not aware there is a season 2 set also. This is a collectors dream come true for fans of the 1950's TV series.
There are other Zorro movies but this is probably the best 'cast' one of all. No other actor could have played the part so aptly but Guy Williams who real name was Armand Catalano from New York. ... Read More
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"Zorro" came out when I was a baby. I remember "Lost in Space" when I was young, too young to realize what a truly handsome man and great actor he was. Thank heaven for Disney Channel and Sci Fi bringing them back a few years ago. I was sad to learn of his death, but, we have collections like this and the "Lost in Space" collections to relive his work.
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From 1957 to 1959 Walt Disney's half-hour television show ZORRO was so popular that, if Disney and the ABC network hadn't had that legal skirmish, it would've kept on chugging along for a long, long time. I've seen the show off and on ever since I was a kid, but it wasn't really until I saw the episodes on DVD, one after another, that I really appreciated just how consistent and how very good Guy Williams was in his dual roles as Don Diego de la Vega and his swashbuckling alter ego. Guy Williams made it ... Read More
