Augustina López

Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.

Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".

La découverte d'or en Californie en 1848 a provoqué un exode massif vers la région, devenant un terreau fertile pour les bandits.

Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.

In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.

Il s'agit de la toute première des nombreuses adaptations au cinéma des aventures de Zorro, personnage créé en 1919 par Johnston McCulley dans l'histoire Le Fléau de Capistrano. Écrit, produit et joué par Douglas Fairbanks, grande star de l'époque, le film est un tel succès commercial que le roman sera désormais réédité sous le même titre que le film. Dans une vieille ville de Californie espagnole, au XIXe siècle, un cavalier du nom de Zorro se bat contre le gouverneur pour défendre les pauvres et les opprimés. Zorro apparaît rapidement comme l'éclair avec un certain humour. Il sort toujours vainqueur de ses combats avec ses adversaires et laisse sa marque : un « Z » signé à la pointe de l'épée.

Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....