Zorro's Black Whip

Zorro's Black Whip (1944)

MASK OF MYSTERY! Who is this daring figure who conquers villainy and evil with the crack of a blazing black whip!

Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes the dead sibling's identity as "The Black Whip," righting the wrongs of Crescent City very much in the manner of her famous ancestor, Zorro.

Date of release
1944-11-16
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (7)
Runtime
3h 31m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Western
Director
Spencer Gordon Bennet

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Zorro

Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 12-chapter film serial by Republic Pictures starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the 1940 20th Century-Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro in order to capitalize on it. Republic was not able to use the character of Zorro himself, however, and despite the title, the hero(ine) is called The Black Whip throughout.

Production

This serial was put into production, with Linda Stirling as the main star, following the actress' popular performance in The Tiger Woman. Zorro's Black Whip was budgeted at $134,899 although the final negative cost was $145,251 (a $10,352, or 7.7%, overspend). It was the cheapest Republic serial of 1944. It was filmed between 29 July and 26 August 1944 under the working title The Black Whip. The serial's production number was 1495.

Babe DeFreest as The Black Whip (doubling Linda Stirling)

Dale Van Sickel as Vic Gordon/Rock Heavy Karl/Camp Heavy/Danley (doubling George J. Lewis]

Tom Steele as Baxter/Ed (doubling Hal Taliaferro)

Special effects by Republic's in-house team of the Lydecker brothers.

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