“The Mark of Zorro” (Rouben Mamoulian, 1940) at 10:30 a.m. on Turner Classic Movies. Mamoulian’s version of Johnston McCulley’s pop classic about another masked Robin Hood leading a double life as a ...
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger ...
Antonio Banderas is one of many actors who have portrayed Zorro. “He has been many different men,” Antonio Banderas tells Catherine Zeta-Jones in the last scene of the rousing 1998 action movie, “The ...
“The Curse of Capistrano,” Johnston McCulley’s first Zorro story, appears in pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. A hero is born. Fred Niblo directs “The Mark of Zorro,” based on “The Curse of Capistrano” ...
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