1981-Comedy
I remember watching this film when I was 10 years old. Those were the days when Political Correctness and fun romps with gray gay areas. As a kid, I remember laughing at slapstick comedy and funny plot twists, but never full comprehended the Gay humor or Witty quips.
Synopsis:
Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon (also George Hamilton in a dual role), who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte (Lauren Hutton) a long-time critic of Captain Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.
All-in-All:
This film is freakin funny. The jokes, the lines and deliveries, hilarious! Man, this would have to be one of my favorite 100 comedies of all time. These were the times of true satire comedies and not the crap we shovel through today. The plot was different, and that the whole 'Gay' thing was key to the film, it wasn't the trick pony that I expected. surprising me with an actual plot and character development. Watch this if you enjoy laughing and not feeling the weight of Political Correctness.
Riko's Rating: A
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