Here's the picture in which the world's greatest exponent of good cheer and humor gives you a genuine riot of fun and thrills-pep and action-comedy-love-guaranteeing to drive away all your blues.
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
- 7.1
- 1920
- Released
- 1h 47m
Douglas Fairbanks
Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
Noah Beery
Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
Charles Hill Mailes
Don Carlos Pulido
Claire McDowell
Dona Catalina Pulido
Marguerite De La Motte
Lolita Pulido
Robert McKim
Capt. Juan Ramon
George Periolat
Gov. Alvarado
Walt Whitman
Fray Felipe
Sidney De Gray
Don Alejandro (as Sydney De Gray)
Tote Du Crow
Bernardo
Noah Beery Jr.
Boy (uncredited)
Milton Berle
Boy (uncredited)
Gilbert Clayton
Soldier with 'Z' Carved on His FaceManuel Caballero
Villager
John George
Prisoner in Jail
Augustina López
Woman at Fray Felipes TrialAlbert MacQuarrie
Charles Stevens
Jack Tornek
Betty Vent
John Winn
Released
en
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- #swordplay
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- #black and white
- #silent film
- #zorro
Reviews
It was always one of the highlights during the school holidays to watch Guy Williams and Henry Calvin in the 1957 television series of this story - and you can clearly see it's roots in this. A classic piece of action adventure based around the antics of Fairbanks' "Zorro" - a Scarlet Pimpernel style character that couldn't tie his own shoelaces on the outside, but with a secret persona determined