This Republic Pictures serial has a scene where Volita (Sheila Darcy) and her brother are taken to a dungeon and tied to chairs facing each other. The bad guys are trying to get them to reveal Zorro’s true identity so one heats up a poker and approaches the brother. When he tells the bad guy, “Burn me! I’ll never talk!”, the bad guy sneers, “Who’s talking about burning you?” and then advances on the lovely senorita instead. With this being a kid-friendly serial, there’s only brief threatening and of course, no actual torture. In this case, the threat of burning is merely a plot device to move the action along. Oh well, what else would you expect?
