The Mark of Zorro
Also known as Mark of Zorro
1940 American adventure film directed by Rouben Mamoulian
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7.1In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro.
Released: 1940-11-0894 minDir: Rouben MamoulianAdventure, Romance, ActionBudget: $1.0MBox office: $4.0M
Cast
- Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro
- Linda Darnell as Lolita Quintero
- Basil Rathbone as Captain Esteban Pasquale
- Gale Sondergaard as Inez Quintero
- Eugene Pallette as Friar Felipe
- J. Edward Bromberg as Don Luis B. Quintero
Themes
- mask
- california
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The Mark of Zorro is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling film released by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone.
The film is based on the novel The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, originally published in 1919 in five serialized installments in All-Story Weekly, which introduced the masked hero Zorro; the story is set in Southern California during the early 19th century. After the enormous success of the silent 1920 film adaptation, the novel was republished under that name by Grosset & Dunlap. The Mark of Zorro was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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1940 action films1940 American films1940 English-language films1940 films1940 Western (genre) films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican Western (genre) filmsEnglish-language Western (genre) filmsFilms based on American novelsFilms based on works by Johnston McCulleyFilms directed by Rouben Mamoulian