The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Directed by

Rouben Mamoulian

Genre

drama film, action film, swashbuckler film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 235 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In early 19th century California, a wealthy man returns home from Spain and secretly acts as a masked vigilante named Zorro to fight against a corrupt governor and his regime. He must balance his duties as a gentleman with his dangerous double life while winning the heart of a woman he loves.

swashbucklingromanticthrillingheroicdramaticadventurousfast-pacedfun

What happens

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. The film 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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