The Mark of Zorro (1940) on Netflix
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Don Diego Vega returns to Alta California to find the corrupt alcalde Luis Quintero mistreating the common people. He plays the fop in public, and as the masked Zorro he defends them.
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Plot summary
Don Diego Vega is called home from his military education in Spain to Alta California, where he learns that his father, Don Alejandro Vega, is no longer alcalde of Los Angeles. The office has gone to Luis Quintero, whose soldiers mistreat and tax the common people. Outwardly Diego is a foppish young man indifferent to politics; in secret he wears black and rides as Zorro, an outlaw who takes the tax collector's money and returns it to the peasant farmers. Esteban Pasquale commands Quintero's garrison. Quintero, unaware of Diego's secret, arranges a marriage between his niece Lolita and Diego, and Lolita resists the foppish suitor while Diego courts her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Mark of Zorro (1940)
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In DC Comics continuity, 1940's The Mark of Zorro is the film that eight-year-old Bruce Wayne had just watched with his parents, Thomas and Martha, when he saw them murdered in front of him by a thug later retconned as Joe Chill; Zorro is often portrayed as his childhood hero and an influence on Batman.- The sense that Tyrone Power is everywhere at once in the action scenes was achieved by "cutting on movement", a method director Rouben Mamoulian used to create the impression of relentless action.
- Composer Ian Fraser reused portions of Newman's original score for the 1940 film in Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981), a George Hamilton comedy and tongue-in-cheek sequel whose star sent director Rouben Mamoulian a note dedicating it to him.
