The Mark of Zorro is a 1940 feature motion picture directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by 20th Century Fox. It starred Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega (Zorro), Linda Darnell as his love interest, Lolita Quintero, Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega, Gale Sondergaard as the naughty Inez Quintero, Eugene Pallette as Father Felipe, and Basil Rathbone as the villainous Captain Pasquale. J. Edward Bromberg was the corrupt governor. (Rathbone and P...
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The Mark of Zorro is a 1940 feature motion picture directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by 20th Century Fox. It starred Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega (Zorro), Linda Darnell as his love interest, Lolita Quintero, Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega, Gale Sondergaard as the naughty Inez Quintero, Eugene Pallette as Father Felipe, and Basil Rathbone as the villainous Captain Pasquale. J. Edward Bromberg was the corrupt governor. (Rathbone and Pallette both played similar roles in the Errol Flynn The Adventures of Robin Hood, the former as Sir Guy of Gisborn, and the latter as Friar Tuck.) The movie was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and produced by Raymond Griffith and Darryl F. Zanuck. Don Diego's mute assistant Bernardo is absent from the 1920 silent film. George Regas starred in this movie as Sergeant Gonzales at the time of his unexpected death. This film was Nominated for Academy Award for the Best original score in the 1941 Academy Awards.
Based on the Johnston McCulley story...
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