This is my all time favourite Zorro film.Tyrone Power is a great and dashing Don Diego/Zorro.The scenes with him playing a foppish dandy to hide his true persona are both hilarious and wonderfully enjoyable.THE MARK OF ZORRO starts off at a fast pace and never lets up for a moment. The villains are played by J.Edward Bromberg
as the corrupt and cowardly Don Quintero who bleeds the californian people dry with over taxation and Captain Pasquale,the superb Basil Rathbone,adding further menace.Linda Darnell is once again cast as Power's love interest,the lovely Lolita Quintero. Eugene Pallette reprises his role in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD by playing yet another lovable friar and Montagu Love plays Diego's deposed father.Solid and stylish direction from Rouben Mamoulian with a brilliant score by Alfred Newman. This film also contains one of the greatest duels ever captured on screen from two of hollywood's most agile swordsmen,TYRONE POWER AND BASIL RATHBONE. A great swashbuckling adventure!!!!!!
P.S.Also worth noting is the nice performance by Gale Sondergaard as Lolita's obviously jealous Aunt Inez!
10/10
as the corrupt and cowardly Don Quintero who bleeds the californian people dry with over taxation and Captain Pasquale,the superb Basil Rathbone,adding further menace.Linda Darnell is once again cast as Power's love interest,the lovely Lolita Quintero. Eugene Pallette reprises his role in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD by playing yet another lovable friar and Montagu Love plays Diego's deposed father.Solid and stylish direction from Rouben Mamoulian with a brilliant score by Alfred Newman. This film also contains one of the greatest duels ever captured on screen from two of hollywood's most agile swordsmen,TYRONE POWER AND BASIL RATHBONE. A great swashbuckling adventure!!!!!!
P.S.Also worth noting is the nice performance by Gale Sondergaard as Lolita's obviously jealous Aunt Inez!
10/10