The Mark of Zorro
with Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone.
black and white, Fox.
Compared to today’s media, The Mark of Zorro provides slow moving and mild fare, having only a few scenes with [mostly] sanitized violence: some cuts and two stabbings. TMOZ does provide some of the “witty repartee” you’d expect in a good swashbuckler.
The characters glide through this, clearly having fun. It wasn’t Oscar fare then, nor is it now. It has one exciting swordfight between Power and Rathbone.
Discussion topics:
Deception
Theft
Civil disobedience
Catholic culture then and now
Does “the end justify the means”?
Should men be allowed to wear tights with flowers down the sides?
CFI: 1.
I’m not even sure why. But when I looked down, there was one fingernail gone, and a picked cuticle. Ouch. It must have been all Don Diego’s foppish hanky flopping. Scary stuff.
What would I pay to see this again?
If I could go with someone who would laugh along with me, a couple bucks. I’d rent it again in a couple years when my son is older. Every swashbuckling fan should see it at least once.
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