The Mark of Zorro

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Lobby card for The Mark of Zorro (1940) shows Tyrone Power as Zorro in mask and cape with sword, Linda Darnell's portrait, and scenes of sword fighting and conversation.

The Mark of Zorro

film by Mamoulian [1940]

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Rouben Mamoulian
Films and plays of the 1940s and ’50s
… and returned to form with The Mark of Zorro (1940), a classic swashbuckler with assured performances by Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone. Equally distinguished was Blood and Sand (1941), which reunited Power and Darnell and added Rita Hayworth. Mamoulian stylishly conveyed the drama and pageantry of the bullring…
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… and returned to form with The Mark of Zorro (1940), a classic swashbuckler with assured performances by Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone. Equally distinguished was Blood and Sand (1941), which reunited Power and Darnell and added Rita Hayworth. Mamoulian stylishly conveyed the drama and pageantry of the bullring…
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Zorro
The 1940 remake of The Mark of Zorro starred Tyrone Power in the title role. In The Mask of Zorro (1998), Anthony Hopkins played an aging Don Diego, who emerges from retirement to train Antonio Banderas’s character to be his successor as Zorro. Banderas reprised that role in The…
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The 1940 remake of The Mark of Zorro starred Tyrone Power in the title role. In The Mask of Zorro (1998), Anthony Hopkins played an aging Don Diego, who emerges from retirement to train Antonio Banderas’s character to be his successor as Zorro. Banderas reprised that role in The…
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