Zorro's Fighting Legion [SEP] cast member
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Zorro's Fighting Legion is a 1939 Republic Pictures film serial consisting of twelve chapters starring Reed Hadley as Zorro and directed by William Witney and John English. The plot revolves around his alter-ego Don Diego's fight against the evil Don Del Oro.
The serial is unusual in featuring a real historical personage, Mexican President Benito Juárez, as a minor character. It is the second in a series of five Zorro serials: "Zorro Rides Again" (1937), "Zorro's Black
". While he would be cast in almost 70 films over the next 25 years, most of those roles were in smaller roles. Mapes spent the rest of the 1930s acting in several film serials, including "The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" (for which he also did stunts), which is considered by some as the finest serial ever shot at Columbia Pictures; "The Lone Ranger Rides Again", "Dick Tracy's G-Men", "Zorro's Fighting Legion", "Son of