El Coyote (fictional character)
El Coyote (The Coyote) is the name of a fictional character very similar to Zorro, although acting 100 years later. He first appeared in the novel El Coyote (1944) by José Mallorquí. Between 1944 and 1953 El Coyote appeared in 192 pulp-like novels.[1]
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[edit] Description
El Coyote's real name is César de Echagüe and he is a rich man living at a ranch called San Antonio outside Los Angeles. In Mallorqui's novels one can trace that César was born around 1826 (the novels cover adventures from circa 1846 until circa 1876). The Coyote protects the original Spanish community of California from the Anglo Americans.
[edit] Films
- El coyote (1955) Spain & Mexico Act Odón Alonso
- La justicia del Coyote/Judgement of Coyote (1956) Spain & Mexico Odón Alonso
- Il segno del coyote/The Sign of the Coyote (1963) Italy & Spain Fernando Casanova
- La vuelta de El Coyote/The Return of El Coyote (1998) Spain José Coronado
[edit] Comics
El Coyote had a comic book adaptation in Spain, by Jose Mallorquí and Francisco Batet, in the comic magazine Novelas del Oeste (Western Novels) during the 1940's and 50's.
[edit] Notes
- ^ p.314 Stephan, Alexander The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945 Berghahn Books, 2006
[edit] External links
- http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/e/elcoyote.htm
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166014/
- http://www.fantascienza.net/vegetti/Coyote/index.htm
- Spanish Wikipedia article http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Coyote&ei=COUMT9SAKs6UiQeDhfn9BQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCesar%2Bde%2BEchague%26hl%3Den%26prmd%3Dimvnso
