Ghost of Zorro (1949)
NEVER SUCH COURAGE NEVER SUCH DARING NEVER SUCH RIDING NEVER SUCH THRILLS
167 min
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
- Release date
- March 24, 1949
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Stanley Wilson
Cast
- Clayton Moore as Ken Mason
- Pamela Blake as Rita White
- Roy Barcroft as Hank Kilgore
- George J. Lewis as Moccasin
- Gene Roth as George Crane
- John Crawford as Mulvaney - Ch. 3, 4
- I. Stanford Jolley as Paul Hobson - Ch. 6, 7
- Steve Clark as Jonathan R. White - Ch. 1, 10
- Steve Darrell as Ben Simpson - Ch. 8
- Dale Van Sickel as Mike Hodge
Crew
- Fred C. Brannon · Director
- Royal K. Cole · Writer
- William Lively · Writer
- Sol Shor · Writer
- Stanley Wilson · Composer
- John MacBurnie · Cinematographer
- Cliff Bell Sr. · Editor
- Harold Minter · Editor