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.
Zorro's Fighting Legion
A serial film, film serial, movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed. Usually, each serial involves a single set of characters, protagonistic and antagonistic, involved in a single story, which has been edited into chapters after the fashion of serial fiction and the episodes cannot be shown out of order or as a single or a random collection of short subjects.
Poster for episode 6 of The Perils of Pauline (1914)
Poster for the final chapter of The Masked Marvel (1943)
Poster for chapter 6 of The Ace of Spades (1925) depicting a typical dramatic ending
Poster for the Republic serial King of the Rocket Men (1949)