Trivia / Zorro, the Gay Blade

• Accent Depundent: To save the pipples and the smell of ships. You know - the thing on the farms?
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $12.6 million. Box office, $5.1 million (domestic).
• Completely Different Title: In some countries, like Australia, the movie's title was changed to Zorro Swings Again.
• Creator Killer: Peter Medak didn’t work on another theatrical film until The Men's Club five years later.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Famously tan George Hamilton as a pale-faced (and beauty-marked) Royal Navy fop.
  • To be fair, Hamilton does have a mole where Bunny's beauty mark is, but Bunny clearly embellishes it.
• Playing Their Own Twin: George Hamilton plays both Zorros. Advertised to highlight this trope:
  TV Announcer: George Hamilton! George Hamilton! And a cast of peasants in... Zorro, the Gay Blade!
• Recycled Soundtrack: The main Zorro theme is from the Errol Flynn film Adventures of Don Juan.
• Referenced by...: In Joker, young Bruce Wayne and his parents go out of a theater screening Zorro, the Gay Blade, then his parents get murdered. In many previous versions of Batman's Origin Story, they went to see The Mark of Zorro before being murdered instead. Zorro, the Gay Blade is part of the Setting Update from the 1940s to the 1980s.
• Star-Derailing Role: George Hamilton stuck to television until The Godfather Part III.
• Working Title: Zorro, the Comedy Adventure.

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