The Mark of Zorro

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Rick R @RT01654519 Jun 5 Very entertaining! Great cast, many of whom are classic top actors. I have watched this movie over and over. See more erik J @RT37407038 May 30 Tyrone Powers looks like true of the Zorro. Basil R. was actually an expert with swords, so you get amazing sword fights. The machoism of old Spain culture is perfectly portrayed. See more Ingrid B @RT12814231 11/11/2024 Exciting and foxy Tyrone Power is awesome. He was an underrated actor. There are always fascinating nuances to his performances. See more Blobbo X @Blobbo 09/27/2022 Classic swash with rousing musical accompaniment, good sword fight. See more victor o @RT45890256 09/04/2022 I have seen other adaptations of Zorro before, on film as well as on television, but I never sat down to see the older adaptations. To be honest I only saw this because Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger were inspired by the epic. I also heard plenty of great things about Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone's depictions of the characters in this adaptation of Zorro. Set in the early 1800s in Spanish-ruled California, the governor is miles away from the ruling authority in Madrid and becomes a dictator of his people. But Don Diego (Tyrone Power) takes it upon himself to use his resources from his horsemanship and swordsmanship to fight the corrupt government as a vigilante, fighting for the oppressed as the Fox, or as it's known in the original Spanish, Zorro. This will be done many times over but it certainly is more than a treat watching one of the earliest Zorro films. Tyrone Power was amazing in the movie. Acting wise he was straightforward but with a good deal of charisma, going from the spoiled fop to the dashing vigilante convincingly. I agree with Basil Rathbone who said Power was the best swordsman in motion pictures, their fight being a spectacular piece of filmmaking. The romance between Diego and Lolita, another staple of Zorro movies, is also nicely done. They don't call them classics for anything. See more Taylor L @RT77267842 09/03/2022 We really need to go back to the golden age of film, not because the writing, acting, or themes were better, but because the stars had way cooler names. Tyrone Power? Basil Rathbone? Montagu Love? If it doesn't sound like either a James Bond villain or a pornstar, it shouldn't be up in lights. Perhaps not as formative or massively successful (by the standards of the day) as the silent 1920 version starring Douglas Fairbanks, The Mark of Zorro is still the classic swashbuckler formula featuring one of the genre's most distinctive and enduring characters. It's got classic deceptions, a Robin Hood-esque vigilante, romance, and the elegant witticisms that each define the gentleman crusader. When you're referring to material this influential, it's essentially impossible to call something tired or unoriginal when it blazed the trail for so much of what came after it. Maybe a bit slow in parts and not featuring quite the scale of some of its contemporaries, but Power still fits the role quite well. Eugene Pallette's bullfrog voice and hard American accent as a Mexican friar is just peak classic Hollywood casting. (3/5) See more Read all reviews

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