Daughter of Don Q (1946)

Kirk Alyn, Jimmy Ames, Roy Barcroft, Adrian Booth, Kernan Cripps ... see more  , Fred Graham , I. Stanford Jolley , Ted Mapes , LeRoy Mason , Claire Meade , Eddie Parker , Buddy Roosevelt , Tom Steele , Dale Van Sickel , Tom Quinn

Republic Pictures attempted to mix the popular Zorro sub-genre with a modern crime story in this action serial directed by veterans Spencer G. Bennet and Fred C. Brannon. It was an uneasy mix at best,... read more  and after establishing that Dolores Quantaro (Adrian Booth) was indeed the granddaughter of the legendary daredevil, the serial settled down to become a rather drawn-out whodunit concerning the murders of several descendants of a Spanish settler. Attempting to get to the bottom of the carnage, Dolores is aided by crime reporter Cliff Roberts (played by future Superman, Kirk Alyn), but despite their combined efforts, it took another 11 episodes before the culprit was finally unmasked. Adrian Booth had been billed Lorna Gray when playing the evil high priestess Vultura in the earlier, and still fondly remembered, Perils of Nyoka (1942). The brunette starlet went on to some success as a leading lady in Republic Westerns. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi