BAAAAAD Acting!


Whoa -- I thought Wallace Beery was the worst over-actor in Hollywood, but he can't hold a candle to his brother Noah!

His Sergeant Gonzalez would've been an embarrassment in a grade-school pageant...

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Ummm, this film IS a comedy/drama, and Beery's character is clearly meant to be an oaf. Not that Beery was a great actor, but he's perfect as the comic foil for Zorro to kick around.

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If something, I thought Robert McKim's acting as Captain Ramon was a tad ludicrous, as the character is rather sinister in the novel. McKim played him like Stromboli.

I think Beery was fun. A few years later, he interestingly played the head villain in the TV serial "Zorro Rides Again". And I have to take part with the OP's statement of his brother Wallace, of course.

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