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The Mark of Zorro is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rouben Mamoulian released in USA on 8 november 1940 with Tyrone Power

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

The Mark of Zorro
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Released in USA 8 november 1940
Length 1h34
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Swashbuckler,    Action,    Adventure,    Romance,    Western
Rating74% 3.744743.744743.744743.744743.74474

The Mark of Zorro is a 1940 American black-and-white adventure film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone.

The Mark of Zorro was nominated for an Academy Award for Best original score. It was named to the National Film Registry in 2009 by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and to be preserved for all time.

The film is based on The Curse of Capistrano written 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 Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name by Grosset & Dunlap.

Synopsis

Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is urgently called home by his father. To all outward appearances, he is the foppish son of wealthy ranchero and former Alcade Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), having returned to California after his military education in Spain. Don Diego is horrified at the way the common people are mistreated by the corrupt Alcalde, Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg), who had forced his father from the position. Don Diego then adopts the guise of El Zorro ("The Fox"), a masked outlaw, who becomes the defender of the common people and a champion for justice. Meanwhile, he romances the Alcalde's beautiful and innocent niece, Lolita (Linda Darnell), whom he grows to love. As part of his plan, Don Diego simultaneously flirts with the Alcalde's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard), filling her head with tales of Madrid fashion and culture and raising her desire to move there with her corrupt husband. In both his guises, Don Diego must contend with the governor's ablest henchman, the malevolent Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone). He eventually dispatches the Captain in a fast-moving rapier duel-to-the-death, forcing a regime change, Don Diego's plan all along.

Actors

Tyrone Power

(Don Diego Vega, aka Zorro)
Linda Darnell

(Lolita Quintero)
Basil Rathbone

(Captain Esteban Pasquale)
Gale Sondergaard

(Inez Quintero)
Eugene Pallette

(Friar Felipe)
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Zorro

The Mark of Zorro (1920) Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) The Bold Caballero (1936) The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936) Zorro Rides Again (1937) Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) The Mark of Zorro (1940) Zorro's Black Whip (1944) Son of Zorro (1947) Ghost of Zorro (1949) Don Daredevil Rides Again (1951) The Dream of Zorro (1952) Lawless Mountain (1953) Man with the Steel Whip (1954) Return of the Monster (1958) Zorro vs. the Teenage Monster (1958) Signé Zorro (1958) El jinete solitario (1958) El Jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres (1958) The Scarlet Fox: Ghost Stagecoach (1959) El jinete solitario en El valle de los desaparecidos: La venganza del jinete solitario (1960) The Shadow of Zorro (1962) El Zorro Vengador (1962) Zorro the Avenger (1962) Samson and the Slave Queen (1963) Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963) Sword of Zorro (1963) Sign of Zorro (1963) Zorro in the Court of Spain (1963) Zorro le rebelle (1966) Behind the Mask of Zorro (1966) The Nephews of Zorro (1968) Zorro the Fox (1968) Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (1969) The Avenger, Zorro (1969) Zorro's Latest Adventure (1970) Zorro in the Court of England (1970) Zorro, Rider of Vengeance (1971) Zorro the Invincible (1971) Red Hot Zorro (1972) The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972) Man with the Golden Winchester (1973) The Mark of Zorro (1974) Zorro (1975) Dream of Zorro (1975) Who's Afraid of Zorro (1975) The Great Adventure of Zorro (1976) The Great Adventure of Zorro (1976) El Zorro blanco (1978) Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981) The Mask of Zorro (1998) The Legend of Zorro (2005)

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