Screenplay: Johnston McCulley

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Johnston McCulley. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Mark of Zorro

1920 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · Robert McKim · Noah Beery

Synopsis In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of...

6.6

471 votes

6.6

471 votes

Zorro (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hollingsworth Morse · Charles Barton · Norman Foster · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Guy Williams · Gene Sheldon · Henry Calvin · Don Diamond

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1959). 3 Seasons. 82 Episodes. The only son of Don Alejandro returns to 1820s California to fight the corrupt local military. He plays the foppish dandy by day...

6.5

934 votes

6.5

934 votes

5.5

60 votes

Zorro (TV Series)

1990 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ray Austin · Michael Levine · Peter Diamond · Robert McCullough

Cast Duncan Regehr · James Victor · Juan Diego Botto · Patrice Martinez

Synopsis Zorro (also known as The New Zorro or New World Zorro or Zorro 1990) was an early 1990s television series featuring Duncan Regehr playing the character of Zorro. Regehr portrayed...

4.8

702 votes

4.8

702 votes

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Zorro, the Gay Blade

1981 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak

Cast George Hamilton · Lauren Hutton · Brenda Vaccaro · Ron Leibman

Synopsis Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the...

4.7

196 votes

4.7

196 votes

The Sign of Zorro

1958 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster · Norman Foster

Cast Guy Williams · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon · Romney Brent

Synopsis In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego...

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The Black Pirates

1954 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Allen H. Miner

Cast Anthony Dexter · Martha Roth · Lon Chaney Jr. · Robert Clarke

Synopsis Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot....

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Zorro's Black Whip

1944 · Movie · 211 min. · United States

Direction Spencer Gordon Bennet · Wallace Grissell

Cast George J. Lewis · Linda Stirling · Lucien Littlefield · Francis McDonald

Synopsis Hammond, owner of the town's stagecoach line and a leading citizen, is opposed to Idaho becoming a state, and kills Randolph Meredith, owner of the town's newspaper, for endorsing it.

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Zorro, the Avenger

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Guy Williams · Charles Korvin · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon

Synopsis Compiled from six episodes of the original Disney Zorro series, this film has El Zorro, "The Fox," battling Jose Sebastian Varga, "The Eagle," a corrupt dictator set on taking control...

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Zorro Rides Again

1937 · Movie · 212 min. · United States

Direction John English · William Witney

Cast John Carroll · Noah Beery · Richard Alexander · Reed Howes

Synopsis The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to...

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The Red Rope

1937 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction S. Roy Luby

Cast Bob Steele · Lois January · Forrest Taylor · Charles King

Synopsis Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight...

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Rose of the Rio Grande

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast John Carroll · Movita · Antonio Moreno · Don Alvarado

Synopsis The story concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.

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The Mark of Zorro (TV)

1974 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall

Cast Frank Langella · Ricardo Montalban · Gilbert Roland · Louise Sorel

Synopsis 1840. Don Diego de la Vega returns from Spain to his family in California to find that his father has been replaced as ruler of the region by the cruel...

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Saddle Mates

1928 · Movie · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Hal Taliaferro · Hank Bell · Russell Gordon · Peggy Montgomery

Synopsis John Benson and Tim Mannick ride into Marin City in search of Morgan Shelby, a crook who cheated them out of their ranch. Shelby tries to kill them, hiring gunman...

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The Ice Flood

1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Kenneth Harlan · Viola Dana · Frank Hagney · Fred Kohler

Synopsis Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he...

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