The mark of Zorro

Resource Information

The work The mark of Zorro represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The mark of Zorro

Statement of responsibility

Twentieth Century Fox presents ; screen play by John Taintor Foote ; adaptation by Garrett Fort and Bess Meredyth ; directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Contributor

• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
• Beecher, Janet
• Bromberg, J. Edward, 1903-1951
• Darnell, Linda, 1923-1965
• Foote, John Taintor, 1881-1950
• Fort, Garrett
• Love, Montagu, 1877-1943
• Lowery, Robert, 1916-1971
• Mamoulian, Rouben
• Martin, Chris-Pin, 1893-1953
• McCulley, Johnston, 1883-1958
• Meredyth, Bess
• Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970
• Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954
• Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958
• Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967
• Sondergaard, Gale, 1899-1985

Subject

• Zorro, (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Vigilantes -- Drama
• Western films
• Action and adventure films
• California -- Drama
• California -- History -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Heroes -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Spanish language materials
• Swashbuckler films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Spanish language materials
• Swashbuckler films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Western films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Don Diego Vega, from the sleepy colony of California, is a cadet at the royal military academy in Spain. His father, Don Alejandro, is alcalde of the Los Angeles region. Don Diego disdains California as boring and insufferably rustic; but returns obediently when called home. When he arrives, all is not as expected. His father no longer serves as alcalde; cruel, bumbling Don Luis Quintero has replaced him. The real power behind Quintero is Captain Esteban Pasquale, a sinister villain who commands the local Spanish garrison. While Diego's father and others fret and fume about the new alcalde, Diego plays the fop--effete, weak, and disinterested. He is so adept that no one will suspect him when he takes action against Quintero and Pasquale, as the mysterious, masked figure known as Zorro. Zorro challenges Quintero's corrupt rule and captures the hearts and imaginations of the peasant population, the old, loyal dons, and the heart of the mayor's niece, Lolita

Member of

• Mark of Zorro (Motion picture : 1940)
• Mark of Zorro (Motion picture : 1940)

Cataloging source

BKX

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Arthur Miller ; art direction, Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright ; costumes, Travis Banton ; editor, Robert Bischoff ; music, Alfred Newman

Date time place

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Language note

In English or dubbed Spanish with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Tyrone Power (Diego), Linda Darnell (Lolita Quintero), Basil Rathbone (Captain Esteban Pasquale), Gale Sondergaard (Inez Quintero), Eugene Pallette (Fray Felipe), J. Edward Bromberg (Don Luis Quintero), Montagu Love (Don Alejandro Vega), Janet Beecher (Senora Isabella Vega), Robert Lowery (Rodrigo), Chris-Pin Martin (Turnkey)

Runtime

93

Target audience

general

Technique

live action