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''The Mark of Zorro'' is a 1940 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
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''The Mark of Zorro'' is a 1940 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
Mamoulian based on the character of Franchise/{{Zorro}}. It is a [[TheRemake remake]] of the 1920 SilentMovie ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro'' that starred Creator/DouglasFairbanks. Music/AlfredNewman composed the music.
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Second film in the venerable Franchise/{{Zorro}} franchise, having been preceded by a Creator/DouglasFairbanks silent, also called ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro''.
Music/AlfredNewman composed the music.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Quintero's wife Inez has been having an affair with Pasquale.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: The corrupt alcalde Luis Quintero is the nominal BigBad who oppresses the people of California in collusion with his DragonInChief Captain Estaban Pasquale.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After spending the entire movie as the resident ButtMonkey, getting bossed and bullied around by Zorro and his own [[TheDragon Dragon]], Captain Pasquale, [[BigBad Luis Quintero]] shows his true colors in [[DiskOneFinalBoss the wake of the captain's demise]] - managing to piece together Zorro's true identity and arranging for Diego to be arrested and executed. It takes an angry mob of peasants and nobles alike to break Diego out and defeat Quintero for good.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After spending the entire movie as the resident ButtMonkey, getting bossed and bullied around by Zorro and his own [[TheDragon Dragon]], Captain Pasquale, [[BigBad Luis Quintero]] shows his true colors in [[DiskOneFinalBoss the wake of the captain's demise]] - demise]], managing to piece together Zorro's true identity and arranging for Diego to be arrested and executed. It takes an angry mob of peasants and nobles alike to break Diego out and defeat Quintero for good.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After spending the entire movie as the resident ButtMonkey, getting bossed and bullied around by Zorro and his own [[TheDragon Dragon]] Captain Pasquale, [[BigBad Luis Quintero]] shows his true colors in [[DiskOneFinalBoss the wake of the captain's demise]], managing to piece together Zorro's true identity and arranges for Diego to be arrested and executed. It takes an angry mob of peasants and nobles alike to break Diego out and defeat Quintero for good.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After spending the entire movie as the resident ButtMonkey, getting bossed and bullied around by Zorro and his own [[TheDragon Dragon]] Dragon]], Captain Pasquale, [[BigBad Luis Quintero]] shows his true colors in [[DiskOneFinalBoss the wake of the captain's demise]], demise]] - managing to piece together Zorro's true identity and arranges arranging for Diego to be arrested and executed. It takes an angry mob of peasants and nobles alike to break Diego out and defeat Quintero for good.
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* TheRevealPromptsRomance: Lolita is not too impressed with Diego when they first meet and horrified at the idea of being sold of into marriage to him. Later, when he reveals to her that he is Zorro, she is much more receptive to his marriage proposal.
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* ToBeLawfulOrToBeGood: Despite his hatred for Quintero and his bleeding the people dry, Alejandro refuses to lead a rebellion because "the law is the law". Hearing his father's reasoning prompts Diego to assume a masked identity.
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* ToBeLawfulOrToBeGood: ToBeLawfulOrGood: Despite his hatred for Quintero and his bleeding the people dry, Alejandro refuses to lead a rebellion because "the law is the law". Hearing his father's reasoning prompts Diego to assume a masked identity.
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* JustLikeRobinHood: It wouldn't be Zorro without that aspect now, would it?
-->'''Fray Felipe''': Are you trying to make me the receiver of stolen goods?\\
'''Diego''': No, Padre, the dispenser. This gold was wrung from the peons. It's up to us to restore it to them.
-->'''Fray Felipe''': Are you trying to make me the receiver of stolen goods?\\
'''Diego''': No, Padre, the dispenser. This gold was wrung from the peons. It's up to us to restore it to them.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: DiscussedTrope. When Diego reveals his identity as Zorro to Fray Felipe, he explains why he chose not to simply kill Quintero, saying that he would be replaced by another alcalde, as bad or even worse than Quintero. Instead, his goal is to scare Quintero into naming Don Alejandro as his successor.
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* ToBeLawfulOrToBeGood: Despite his hatred for Quintero and his bleeding the people dry, Alejandro refuses to lead a rebellion because "the law is the law". Hearing his father's reasoning prompts Diego to assume a masked identity.
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* HeroicDimples: The roguish Zorro, thanks to Tyrone Power.
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* SecretKeeper: Fray Felipe becomes this when Diego reveals his actions as Zorro, entrusting Felipe with the gold he wrung from Quintero and his soldiers in order to redistribute them.
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* SecretKeeper: Fray Felipe becomes this when Diego reveals his actions as Zorro, entrusting Felipe with the gold he wrung from Quintero and his soldiers in order soldiers, so he can return it to redistribute them.the peasants.
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* SecretKeeper: Fray Felipe becomes this when Diego reveals his actions as Zorro, entrusting Felipe with the gold he wrung from Quintero and his soldiers in order to redistribute them.
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* ChekovsSkill: Don Diego demonstrates a talent for sleight-of-hand tricks as part of his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob guise. When he and Fray Felipe are in jail he uses some sleight-of-hand to distract the guard so he can grab his gun and force him to unlock the cell.
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* ChekovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill: Don Diego demonstrates a talent for sleight-of-hand tricks as part of his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob guise. When he and Fray Felipe are in jail he uses some sleight-of-hand to distract the guard so he can grab his gun and force him to unlock the cell.
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* ChekovsSkill: Don Diego demonstrates a talent for sleight-of-hand tricks as part of his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob guise. When he and Fray Felipe are in jail he uses some sleight-of-hand to distract the guard so he can grab his gun and force him to unlock the cell.
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* IHaveNoSon: Don Alejandro is increasingly disappointed with Diego's foppish behavior, but it all comes to a head when he announces his plans to marry Quintero's niece Lolita. At one point Alejandro warns Diego, "If you marry Lolita you leave this house forever!"
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* IShallTauntYou: Diego gets in a doozy during his fight with Pasquale after Pasquale cuts him in the arm with his blade:
-->''"I needed that scratch to awaken me!"''
-->''"I needed that scratch to awaken me!"''
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* DragonInChief: Luis Quintero may be the BigBad in name, but it's Captain Estaban Pasquale who's the real danger. Solidified in their first scene together, where the captain dangerously teases his "boss" with the point of his sword.
-->'''Quintero:''' I don't like such jests. Your eye might fail you.
-->'''Pasquale:''' [[ImpliedDeathThreat It's possible.]]
-->'''Quintero:''' I don't like such jests. Your eye might fail you.
-->'''Pasquale:''' [[ImpliedDeathThreat It's possible.]]
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After spending the entire movie as the resident ButtMonkey, getting bossed and bullied around by Zorro and his own [[TheDragon Dragon]] Captain Pasquale, [[BigBad Luis Quintero]] shows his true colors in [[DiskOneFinalBoss the wake of the captain's demise]], managing to piece together Zorro's true identity and arranges for Diego to be arrested and executed. It takes an angry mob of peasants and nobles alike to break him Diego out and defeat Quintero for good.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: The corrupt alcalde Luis Quintero is the nominal BigBad who oppresses the people of California in collusion with his DragonInChief Captain Estaban Pasquale.
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* HeroicDimples: The roguish Zorro, thanks to Tyrone Power.
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* {{Irony}}: The film is produced by 20th Century ''Fox'' studios.
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Spanish California, late 18th-early 19th century. Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) (Creator/TyronePower) is the son of Don Alejandro, the ''alcalde'' (basically a provincial administrator) of a sleepy town called UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Diego, who is studying at a military academy back in Spain, comes home to find that his father has been deposed as alcalde. The new alcalde, Luis Quintero, is a corrupt stooge who is victimizing the people with oppressively high taxes which he is using to line his own pockets. In this he is assisted by by his sinister military chief, the murderous Captain Pasquale (Creator/BasilRathbone), the real power behind the throne, who does stuff like cut out the tongues of peasants who talk back.
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* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain. He leaves another on a bulletin board after he rips off a Zorro WantedPoster.
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* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain. He leaves another on a bulletin board after he rips off a Zorro WantedPoster.WantedPoster.
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* BlowingSmokeRingsBlowingSmokeRings: How Diego announces his presence in Quintero's office.
* CallBack: A clueless Inez asks when Diego will be joining her in Spain. Diego says no time soon, as he has to "marry, raise fat children, and watch my vineyards grow," the same thing he said in his first scene in Spain (see TemptingFate below). Then he flings his sword into the ceiling, as he did in that first scene, and the film ends.
* CallBack: A clueless Inez asks when Diego will be joining her in Spain. Diego says no time soon, as he has to "marry, raise fat children, and watch my vineyards grow," the same thing he said in his first scene in Spain (see TemptingFate below). Then he flings his sword into the ceiling, as he did in that first scene, and the film ends.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Quintero's wife Inez has been having an affair with Pasquale.
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* HighClassGlass: In his idiot fop persona, Diego busts out an even more annoying one of these, a High Class Glass on a rod that he uses to inspect Lolita.
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Alejandro appeals to his son for help in fighting against Quintero and Pasquale. But rather than oppose them openly, Diego elects to act like a foppish IdleRich twit. Having convinced Quintero and Pasquale that he is no threat, he assumes the secret identity of Señor Zorro ("Mr. Fox"), a masked swordsman who fights for the peasants and against the oppressors. Meanwhile, there is the problem of Quintero's gorgeous daughter Lolita (Linda Darnell), who is drawn to Zorro the dashing cavalier.
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Alejandro appeals to his son for help in fighting against Quintero and Pasquale. But rather than oppose them openly, Diego elects to act like a foppish IdleRich twit. Having convinced Quintero and Pasquale that he is no threat, he assumes the secret identity of Señor Zorro ("Mr. Fox"), a masked swordsman who fights for the peasants and against the oppressors. Meanwhile, there is the problem of Quintero's gorgeous daughter niece Lolita (Linda Darnell), who is drawn to Zorro the dashing cavalier.
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* TitleDrop: Diego pretends to be horrified when he sees "the mark of Zorro!" on Quintero's wall.
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* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain.
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* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain. He leaves another on a bulletin board after he rips off a Zorro WantedPoster.
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* DramaticDrop: The bartender does this when Diego says "I'm the son of the alcalde." Diego hasn't yet found out that there's a new alcalde.
* FaceFramedInShadow: The first time we see Diego in his Zorro outfit, when he's creeping into Quintero's office, all we see of his face are his eyes. The rest is shadow.
* FaceFramedInShadow: The first time we see Diego in his Zorro outfit, when he's creeping into Quintero's office, all we see of his face are his eyes. The rest is shadow.
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* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: Naturally, when Diego gets off the boat in California and stops in a cantina, the bartender is cleaning glasses.
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* TemptingFate: When he gets the letter from his father, Diego describes California as a land of "everlasting boredom...where a man can only marry, raise fat children, and watch his vineyards grow."
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* WantedPoster: Quintero puts one up offering 5000 pesos for Zorro.
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Creator/AlfredNewman composed the music.
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''Film/TheMarkOfZorro''.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Before Batman, Zorro was doing this, convincing the bad guys that he was a spineless weakling while fighting against them under his secret identity.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Fray Felipe apologizes as he knocks out the alcalde's soldiers with a club during the climactic melee.
-->'''Felipe:''' ''(WHACK!)'' God forgive me. ''(WHACK!)'' God forgive me.
* ArchEnemy: The supremely evil Captain Pasquale, who is the real threat.
* BadassPreacher: Fray Felipe. He taught Zorro to use a sword. At one point, he tells the villains he plans to "ask God to reward them according to their merits."
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: After receiving his unexpected summons home from the military academy, Diego flings his sword up into the ceiling, where it sticks in a beam.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: The elaborate and energetic dance of Diego and Lolita brings the two lovebirds closer together.
* MasterSwordsman: Diego and Pasquale in one hell of a duel, possibly one of the best in movie history as it paired off two actual master swordsmen in Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone.
* MatingDance: Diego's dance with Lolita is as close to sex as movies in 1940 could get.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Diego does this to trick the bad guys into thinking he isn't a threat.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Before Batman, Zorro was doing this, convincing the bad guys that he was a spineless weakling while fighting against them under his secretidentity.identity.
* {{Swashbuckler}}: One of the most famous examples from this period, and definitely the most famous example that didn't have Creator/ErrolFlynn in the movie.
* SwordFight: The climax is an epic duel-to-the-death between Zorro and Pasquale.
* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain.
-->'''Felipe:''' ''(WHACK!)'' God forgive me. ''(WHACK!)'' God forgive me.
* ArchEnemy: The supremely evil Captain Pasquale, who is the real threat.
* BadassPreacher: Fray Felipe. He taught Zorro to use a sword. At one point, he tells the villains he plans to "ask God to reward them according to their merits."
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: After receiving his unexpected summons home from the military academy, Diego flings his sword up into the ceiling, where it sticks in a beam.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: The elaborate and energetic dance of Diego and Lolita brings the two lovebirds closer together.
* MasterSwordsman: Diego and Pasquale in one hell of a duel, possibly one of the best in movie history as it paired off two actual master swordsmen in Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone.
* MatingDance: Diego's dance with Lolita is as close to sex as movies in 1940 could get.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Diego does this to trick the bad guys into thinking he isn't a threat.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Before Batman, Zorro was doing this, convincing the bad guys that he was a spineless weakling while fighting against them under his secret
* {{Swashbuckler}}: One of the most famous examples from this period, and definitely the most famous example that didn't have Creator/ErrolFlynn in the movie.
* SwordFight: The climax is an epic duel-to-the-death between Zorro and Pasquale.
* ZorroMark: You can't make a Zorro movie without one. Zorro leaves his in Quintero's office, after forcing Quintero at sword-point to promise to go back to Spain.
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''The Mark of Zorro'' is a 1940 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
Spanish California, late 18th-early 19th century. Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is the son of Don Alejandro, the ''alcalde'' (basically a provincial administrator) of a sleepy town called UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Diego, who is studying at a military academy back in Spain, comes home to find that his father has been deposed as alcalde. The new alcalde, Luis Quintero, is a corrupt stooge who is victimizing the people with oppressively high taxes which he is using to line his own pockets. In this he is assisted by by his sinister military chief, the murderous Captain Pasquale (Creator/BasilRathbone), the real power behind the throne, who does stuff like cut out the tongues of peasants who talk back.
Alejandro appeals to his son for help in fighting against Quintero and Pasquale. But rather than oppose them openly, Diego elects to act like a foppish IdleRich twit. Having convinced Quintero and Pasquale that he is no threat, he assumes the secret identity of Señor Zorro ("Mr. Fox"), a masked swordsman who fights for the peasants and against the oppressors. Meanwhile, there is the problem of Quintero's gorgeous daughter Lolita (Linda Darnell), who is drawn to Zorro the dashing cavalier.
Second film in the venerable Franchise/{{Zorro}} franchise, having been preceded by a Creator/DouglasFairbanks silent, also called ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Before Batman, Zorro was doing this, convincing the bad guys that he was a spineless weakling while fighting against them under his secret identity.
Spanish California, late 18th-early 19th century. Don Diego Vega (Tyrone Power) is the son of Don Alejandro, the ''alcalde'' (basically a provincial administrator) of a sleepy town called UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Diego, who is studying at a military academy back in Spain, comes home to find that his father has been deposed as alcalde. The new alcalde, Luis Quintero, is a corrupt stooge who is victimizing the people with oppressively high taxes which he is using to line his own pockets. In this he is assisted by by his sinister military chief, the murderous Captain Pasquale (Creator/BasilRathbone), the real power behind the throne, who does stuff like cut out the tongues of peasants who talk back.
Alejandro appeals to his son for help in fighting against Quintero and Pasquale. But rather than oppose them openly, Diego elects to act like a foppish IdleRich twit. Having convinced Quintero and Pasquale that he is no threat, he assumes the secret identity of Señor Zorro ("Mr. Fox"), a masked swordsman who fights for the peasants and against the oppressors. Meanwhile, there is the problem of Quintero's gorgeous daughter Lolita (Linda Darnell), who is drawn to Zorro the dashing cavalier.
Second film in the venerable Franchise/{{Zorro}} franchise, having been preceded by a Creator/DouglasFairbanks silent, also called ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Before Batman, Zorro was doing this, convincing the bad guys that he was a spineless weakling while fighting against them under his secret identity.
