Zorro's Black Whip

Zorro's Black Whip
Directed by	Spencer Gordon Bennet Wallace Grissell
Written by	Basil Dickey Jesse Duffy Grant Nelson Joseph Poland Johnston McCulley (Original Zorro Novel)
Produced by	Ronald Davidson
Starring	Linda Stirling George J. Lewis Lucien Littlefield Francis McDonald
Cinematography	Bud Thackery
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release dates	December 16, 1944 (1944-12-16) (U.S. serial)[1] July 8, 1957 (1957-07-08) (U.S. re-release)[1]
Running time	12 chapters (182 minutes)[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$134,899 (negative cost: $145,251)[1]

Zorro's Black Whip is a 1944 12-chapter film serial by Republic Pictures starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the 1940 20th Century-Fox remake of The Mark of Zorro in order to capitalize on it. Republic was not able to use the character of Zorro himself, however, and despite the title, the hero(ine) is called The Black Whip throughout.

The serial is set in pre-statehood Idaho, and involves a fight to prevent and ensure statehood by the villains and heroes respectively.

Parts of the serial were reused as stock footage to pad out later serials such as Don Daredevil Rides Again (1951) and Man with the Steel Whip (1954) – despite the fact that both of those serials had male leads.