Chasing After Zorro

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Summary: Only Britt Lomond Could Have Written This Book!
Review: During a fine acting, writing, and producing career, Britt Lomond has given fans of Disney's "Zorro" two marvelously enduring gifts. The first was his outstanding portrayal of Capitan Monastario, the dastardly Commandante of the Pueblo de Los Angeles during the first thirteen episodes of that wonderful series. The second is this book. In "Chasing After Zorro," Mr. Lomond-with incisive wit and humor-chronicles his life and times as the Commandante, and treats the reader to a behind-the-scenes look at the intricacies of the filming of each episode, providing the kind of deep background and cinematic detail that only a principal player could. For the newer "Zorro" series fan, as well as every young "baby boomer" whose wide eyes were glued to the television set in the late 1950s when Monastario spent those magical thirteen weeks chasing after Zorro, this book once again brings to life Guy Williams as Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro; Britt Lomond as Capitan Enrique Sanchez Monastario; Henry Calvin as Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia; Gene Sheldon as Bernardo; George J. Lewis as Don Alejandro de la Vega; and all the rest of those terrific actors and characters. "Chasing After Zorro" has earned my highest recommendation: BUY IT. If you love the Disney series, the information in this book is priceless.

To Mr. Lomond: On behalf of the millions of fans who have viewed your brilliant portrayal of Capitan Monastario from then to now, I salute you. While the Commandante might not have become "the richest man in all of California," with this book you have enriched your readers with a fountain of knowledge about how those splendid thirteen episodes were created. I toast you with the final words so eloquently sung by Sergeant Garcia in the episode titled "Zorro's Ride Into Terror": "Here's to the Commandante's fame!"