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Original Title: The Mark Of Zorro

Genge: Action,Adventure,Romance,Western

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When he arrives in Los Angeles, he finds that his father has been replaced by the tyrannous Alcalde Don Luis Quintero who oppresses the people. Don Diego does not disclose his abilities with the sword and disguises pretending that he is a sophisticated fashionable gay man. However, when he secretly wears a mask and rides a black horse, he becomes the avenger Zorro that carves his mark for the fearfulness of his enemies.
A young aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
This is the one; the true Zorro film. Everything here is near perfect. Tyrone Power cuts a dashing figure, both as the fop Diego, and the swashbuckling hero. He exudes charm and grace, as a romantic hero should. Basil Rathbone is deliciously evil, sharp with tongue or sword. No one sneers quite like him.

The film really sets the standard, with great costumes, staging, and wonderful action. We are slowly teased with the oppression and corruption, until Zorro makes his entrance. Then, things take off at a gallop. Suspense builds as Esteban's forces close in on Zorro, until he makes his escape. We watch as romance builds and plots are hatched. The suspense builds until the final duel between Diego and Esteban, and what a duel it is. Rathbone was a master fencer and Power is no slouch (although not quite Flynn). The timing is somewhat manipulated, but very exciting. The ending is rousing and satisfying.

They don't make films like this anymore, and it's probably just as well. There are few actors these days who could pull off this combination of romance, adventure, and screen presence. Antonio Banderas made a good try, but there were too many modern trappings. If this film doesn't have you slashing at furniture with an imaginary sword, then you will never have an adventurer's soul. THE Pulp Magazine story writer, Johnston McCulley had his story, "The Ghost of Capistrtano" published in a serialized version in All Story Weekly Magazine in 1920. The main character was Diego de la Vega, another in the line Rich Man Idlers; who secretly don a masked disguise in order to hide their true identities, while they heroically lead in combating some great injustice, crime or even a tyrannical monarch or government.

THAT Mr. McCulley's swashbuckling Zorro was an instant success and obvious potential in adaptation to the Silver Screen; was instantly apparent to THE Preeminent Swashbuckler of the Silent Screen. It has been said that following his marriage to Miss Mary Pickford, Doug spent a great deal of their Honeymoon in reading over the story, familiarizing himself with the story , learning the character that he may do his own film; which would also be the character's debut in the Movies.

IT was just that easy for Mr. Fairbanks at this particular stage of his film career to get the starring vehicle that he wanted. And just why could he accomplish getting such ambitious projects done so easily? Well, you see Schultz, Douglas Fairbanks had his own Production Company. Furthermore, Fairbanks, along with Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and D.W. Griffith got together in 1919 to form the United Artists Corporation to handle their (and others') distribution. Ergo, it was only about a year from being published in All-Story Weekly that Zorro bowed on in the Movie Houses. THE MARK OF ZORRO (Douglas Fairbanks Productions/United Artists Corporation, 1920) was the resulting title. It's good to be King! THE story of a peoples' struggle in 1820's Spanish California and the Fairbanks' upbeat, athletic portrayal made this ZORRO Debut an instant Classic and created demand for both more stories and more flicks. Much like Edgar Rice Burroughs' TARZAN, the popularity of ZORRO demanded more tales of a character that was intended to be a one shot only. Mr. McCulley wrote many more stories, which pleased the Pulp Magazine reading set very much.

NOT to be left out in the cold and let the character grow cold, Republic Pictures Corporation, they of the famous "Thrill Factory" assembly line of "B" Westerns and Serials, secured the rights from McCulley to do some pictures; including the splendid ZORRO'S FIGHTING LEGION (Republic, 1939), with Reed Hadley in the lead.

THE following year, we were treated to a top shelf, Grade 'A', Big Budget film starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. It was, much like so many other Hollywood a remake of sorts (mainly in the title), as THE MARK OF ZORRO (20th Century-Fox, 1940) packed 'em in wherever it played. It was adventure on the grand scale; ranking it right up there with CAPTAIN BLOOD (Warner Brothers, 1935), THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Warner Brothers, 1938) and THE SEAHAWK (Warner Brothers, 1940). Now, that's not bad company to be in.

BEING cast in the lead of this Swashbuckler, Tyrone Power did his best to offer us a foppish Diego and a brave, intelligent and noble Zorro. Linda Darnell is both believable and at once other worldly as the beautiful, lonely Lolita Quintero. J. Edward Bromberg and Gale Sondregaard is a convincing villain couple. There is a presence of three players carried over from THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD; with Montagu Love as Don Alejandro de la Vega (Zorro's Paw!), Basil Rathbone* as the villainous Capitan Esteban Pasquale (in English, Steve Easter?) and, in an almost total reprise of his Friar Tuck, Eugene Palette as Padre Felipe.** THE action was truly exciting, the sets were authentic Spanish Californian, the Costuming believable and the original theme and score by Alfred Newman, David Buttolph, Hugo Friedhofer and Cyril Mockridge fits the story like a glove and underscores the mood of the story throughout. *** THIS version of THE MARK OF ZORRO brought the character to new heights; from the "common, vulgar" Pulp Magazine pages to the heights as the fine Film Franchise that is great Box Office, right down to the present.

NOTE: * Mr. Basil Rathbone was known to be the finest fencer in the films; yet, the movies' being the make believe world that it is, he lost duels to so many heroes in climaxing scenes. These "defeats" included his losing life to people such as our Tyrone Power's Zorro and as many an Errol Flynn adversary.

NOTE: ** Padre Felipe is a virtual clone of Mr. Palette's Friar Tuck from the ROBIN HOOD film. They are both rough, tough and gruff brawling swordsmen; who just happen to also be Members of the Clergy.

NOTE: *** Mr. Newman, who is also usually credited as being 20th Century-Fox's Musical Director, is the only one composer to be mentioned in the credits. (His opening Theme, which seems to recur in every action segment, is haunting and was used in at least one MARK remake for TV). But the other three were busy in apparently making incidental music throughout.

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Fictional characters that are sometimes likened to McCulley's Zorro include (1) Baroness Emmuska Orczy's fictional Sir Percival Blakeney, hero of Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), (2) the medieval anthropomorphic character, Reynard the Fox, (3) Robin Hood, the heroic outlaw in English folklore, and (4) Spring-heeled Jack, a British urban legend character popularized in 1890s penny dreadfuls. On the other hand, Zorro has provided the inspiration for numerous fictional characters popular today, such as the Lone Ranger, Batman, and even Puss in Boots, a Zorro parody in the Shrek film series, first appearing in Shrek 2 (2004) (2004). No actual date or year is mentioned in the movie. However, McCulley set his stories about Zorro's exploits in early 19th century, Spain-governed California, prior to it becoming a U.S. state in 1850. Yes and no. Yes, Power did a lot of his own fencing in the saber duel between Diego and Pasquale, which was choreographed by Hollywood fencing master, Fred Cavens. However, Cavens' son Albert, made up to look like Power, doubles for him in some parts of the duel, mostly with his back to the camera. You can see Albert's face after he breaks the glass in the bookcase, when he turns and exits screen left. On the other hand, Basil Rathbone did all of his own fencing. In his autobiography, In And Out Of Character (1962), Rathbone writes that he studied stage fencing as part of his training at the Old Vic. He even ventured into competitive fencing for a short time but didn't take to it. Diego is captured by Quintero's sentries and placed behind bars with Padre Felipe (Eugene Pallette). Quintero forces all the local peons and cabelleros, including Don Alejandro, to assemble in order to watch the execution of the outlaw Zorro. Diego tricks his cellkeeper by offering to change a centavo into a gold piece, swipes his gun, and forces him to release him and the padre. Cabelleros and peons alike align themselves with Diego, and they easily overpower Quintero's soldiers. In front of everyone, Quintero is forced to resign under the pretense of moving to Spain, and Don Alejandro is named his successor. In the final scene, Quintero's wife Inez (Gale Sondergaard) asks Diego and Lolita when they will come to Madrid, but Diego says that they're going to stay and follow the customs of California...'marry and raise fat children and watch our vineyards grow.' He then tosses his sword into the ceiling to commemorate the day. There have been 16 Zorro films in the US to date, two TV series, and about 40 Mexican, Spanish, French, Italian and Belgian Zorro films. Some of the more notable Zorros have been played by Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920) (1920) and Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) (1925), Robert Livingston in The Bold Caballero (1936) (1936), Reed Hadley in Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) (1939), Guy Williams in Walt Disney's Zorro (1957) TV series (1957-1959), Frank Langella in the made-for-TV The Mark of Zorro (1974) (1974), George Hamilton in Zorro parody Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) (1981), Duncan Regehr in another TV series Zorro (1990) (1990-1993), Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro (1998) (1998), and Banderas again in the sequel The Legend of Zorro (2005) (2005). Z, featuring Gael García Bernal in the title role, was set for release in 2014.
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