It was actually nice to see real people in a real sword fight.

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	• The Mark of Zorro (Special Edition) (Colorized / Black and White) Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell 20th Century Fox, 2005 average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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A masterpiece of screen Swordplay...

Tyrone Power - the swashbuckling answer to Errol Flynn - is cast as the agile masked avenger who decides to take up the people's cause in disguise leaving his 'mark' "Z" everywhere, on walls, coach, wooden barrels and human chest...

Power - in a double leading role - is at his best as Zorro, climbing, jumping, riding and fencing, determined to finish with tyranny and oppression by terrorizing, and retrieving taxation funds and by challenging a cunning officer, proving in public his indifference, his ostentation and irony as a perfect pacifist fop in 19th-Century Spanish California, confusing and deceiving his aristocratic father Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), the deposed Alcalde...

The inspired casting (in supporting roles) recalls "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

Linda Darnell is the pretty Lolita, Quintero's charming niece, who loves the mysterious hero and can't tolerate the fop until she is told that they are the image of the same person...

Basil Rathbone, one of the most durable of screen villains who has mastered stage fencing but never won a Swordfight, plays the cruel captain Esteban Pasquale, the Alcalde's military adviser... He is a second-rate soldier of fortune who leads the campaign of frustrating taxation, who considered Diego "a fancy clown" but who suggests a practical plan, an alliance for the good of the state...

J. Edward Bromberg is the cowardly Alcalde, Don Luis Quintero, a corrupted thief, enemy of the people, whose tyranny and avarice are always enforced by the treachery of his iron hand, the rigorous captain Esteban...

Eugene Palette plays the mission 'fat' priest (Father Felipe) who ignores that Diego is the opposing force...

The high point of the picture is the fantastic duel between Power and Rathbone, a masterpiece of screen Swordplay...

Rouben Mamoulian succeeds in making two great stars dance to an unheard music... With a touch of a great filmmaker, Mamoulian mixes harmoniously movement and action, decor and lightning with rage and turmoil, heroism and romance...

Under Alfred Newman's Oscar-Nominated score and despite the unusual absence of Technicolor, the film (the first of the great Tyrone Power swashbucklers ) is great fun, full of vitality and suspense, an exciting, deliciously ironic swashbuckler...

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It was actually nice to see real people in a real sword fight.

I gave this DVD to my wife on Valentines Day. She has always been a big fan of Tyrone Power. I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised. The action, and the story, was very mundane by today's standards. We are so brainwashed by movies that show the hero turning triple flips in the air while using his sword to flick buttons off of the bad guy's jacket that we forget what real people are really like. Although this movie was much tamer than today's special effects movies, it was also more realistic and quite nice to see actors of yesteryear that didn't need all those special effects.

The colors were not as bright as movies that are shot in color but it was a good job and looked good. This movie is a treat that we will enjoy for some time.

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Colorization comes of age!

THE MARK OF ZORRO is a movie that should have been filmed in Technicolor in the first place. Then there's the seemingly national prejudice against colorization, spawned, no doubt, by the awful early efforts. However, like
most innovations, early efforts are crude and can improve only by trial
and error.

"Artistic censors" saw early on that they must stop this evil - and they did. "We must preserve the black and white originals"...apparently these
idiots did not know that only a tape of the film was colorized; the original negative was never touched. Technicolor was used infrequently because it cost triple the money of a black and white film. Money, not aesthetics controlled this aspect of movie-making.

At last, Twentieth Century Fox is correcting some of their past decisions
by colorizing THE MARK OF ZORRO, and a fine job it is. Color lightens the
mood of this costume epic, and gives a warmth to the fine cast. They have
also done a great job of colorizing MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. (At last, the Thanksgiving Day Parade looks festive.)

"Purists" rejoice! The black and white original can be seen on the same DVD. However, I'll bet you never watch it once you've seen it in color!

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I purchased this a gift for my husband. He was very happy to receive this as this is one of his favorite movies. I had searched every where for this movie and my son told me aobut your site. Thanks

My husband has watched this movie and he has enjoyed every moment

THE BEST ZORRO!

Tyrone Power, a highly underrated actor, was born to play "Zorro".Everything about his performance is perfect,his comedic timing is flawless.The entire is first-rate.Eugene Pallette as the Padre,Basil Rathbone as a dastardly villian,J.Edward Bromberg (as a corrupt Gov.-very funny),the beautiful Gale Sondergaard as his unfaithful wife,and Linda Darnell as Brombergs' ultra-beautiful niece.The score by Alfred Newman and the direction by Rouben Mamoulian is letter perfect.The disc contains the original black and white verson and the colorized version.Being a movie purist I stick with the original.

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