The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Here's the picture in which the world's greatest exponent of good cheer and humor gives you a genuine riot of fun and thrills-pep and action-comedy-love-guaranteeing to drive away all your blues.
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
- Date of release
- 1920-12-05
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (80)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Western, Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
- Director
- Fred Niblo
- Collection
- Zorro (Silent era)
Casting
- Douglas Fairbanks — Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
- Noah Beery — Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
- Charles Hill Mailes — Don Carlos Pulido
- Claire McDowell — Dona Catalina Pulido
- Marguerite De La Motte — Lolita Pulido
- Robert McKim — Capt. Juan Ramon
- George Periolat — Gov. Alvarado
- Walt Whitman — Fray Felipe
- Sidney De Gray — Don Alejandro (as Sydney De Gray)
- Tote Du Crow — Bernardo
- Noah Beery Jr. — Boy (uncredited)
- Milton Berle — Boy (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Curse of Capistrano
The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks and Eugene Miller. Zorro is a character reminiscent of Baroness Orczy's masked hero The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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