The Mark of Zorro

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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Rating: 4.7 (0)
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Ride With Zorro . . . The Dashing Don Of Californias Most Adventurous Era !

The Jagged Mark of His Sword Struck Terror to Every Heart - But One!

Writing by: John Taintor Foote - (screenplay)
Garrett Fort - (adaptation) and
Bess Meredyth - (adaptation)
Johnston McCulley - (story "The Curse of Capistrano")

Produced by: Raymond Griffith - associate producer (uncredited)
Darryl F. Zanuck - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: 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
George Regas - Sergeant Gonzales
Chris-Pin Martin - Turnkey
Robert Lowery - Rodrigo

Music: Alfred Newman David Buttolph Hugo Friedhofer Cyril J. Mockridge
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Plot Outline: A young aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
Plot: Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The opening credits appear on signs at a construction site.

Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: In the shot of downtown Oklahoma City, the skyline features the Ford Center, not built until the early 2000s.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The original working title for this film was "The Californian".
During filming, Tyrone Power (I) was in the habit of taking an early morning swim in a pool that he insisted on being carefully pre-heated. Darryl F. Zanuck played a prank on him by arranging for the heating to be turned off. Power dived in and got such a shock that he later claimed he nearly had a heart attack. He got his revenge. Zanuck watched the dailies every day with a critical eye and one evening saw something unexpected; the cast and crew collaborated to film a spoof version of the hold-up scene where Zorro robs a coach carrying the Governor and his wife. When Zorro is supposed to slash his Z into the vehicles upholstery, the camera reveals he has slashed "DZ". "Oh my God, its Zanuck" his victims gasp. Power responds: "Thats right, you bastards..." and describes the producer in very unflattering language.
In DC comic lore, this version of Zorro with Tyrone Power (I) is the movie that a young Bruce Wayne goes to see the night his parents are mugged and shot by Joe Chill. After coming out of the movie and walking through an alley with Bruce is when they are mugged, and what leads to Batmans creation. This fact is mentioned in the 1986 Frank Miller comic The Dark Knight Returns.