Editorial Product Review: essential video:Douglas Fairbanks, the most famous of the Zorros, made this mix of comedy and derring-do reluctantly, as a change-of-pace from his modern-dress playboy roles. The Old California adventure fared so well at the box office it caused the athletic superstar to rethink his image and don period finery for his best later vehicles, including The Thief of Baghdad. Here, Doug has a ball playing dual roles, as hopeless fop Don Diego and as masked caballero Zorro, sworn enemy ...
Editorial Product Review: :William S. Hart was the first and arguably the most fascinating of silent-film cowboy stars. Hard and humorless, with a face that looked chiseled out of granite, he straddled the line between hero and criminal as the 'Good Badman' of silent Western cinema. In The Toll Gate (1920), directed by Hart regular Lambert Hillyer, he plays Black Deering, the leader of a train-robbing gang sold out by one of his own men. Deering escapes with revenge on his mind, but ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Douglas Fairbanks, the most famous of the Zorros, made this mix of comedy and derring-do reluctantly, as a change-of-pace from his modern-dress playboy roles. The Old California adventure fared so well at the box office it caused the athletic superstar to rethink his image and don period finery for his best later vehicles, including The Thief of Baghdad. Here, Doug has a ball playing dual roles, as hopeless fop Don Diego and as masked caballero Zorro, sworn enemy ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:A young ranch owner has roped and tamed Rex, King of the Wild Horses. The horse soon becomes friends with Rinty, a magnificent police dog. A crooked employee at the ranch steals Rex, and the horse winds up in the possession of a rack track tout. The young rancher comes to retrieve Rex but finds the man who stole him has been murdered. The young man must now clear himself of a murder charge -- with the help of Rex ...
