The Mark of Zorro

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.

Just introduced Captain Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) receives Don Diego (Tyrone Power, also the title character), just back to California from Spain, and not tipping his hand, as he meets the new governor and his wife (J. Edward Bromberg, Gale Sondergaard), in The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.

In a stylish prologue actually not derived from the original story by Johnston McCulley, Tyrone Power as the title character, Ralph Byrd his fellow cadet, in director Rouben Mamoulian's hit The Mark Of Zorro, 1940, co-starring Linda Darnell and Basil Rathbone.

We know only that California nobleman Don Diego (Tyrone Power) is alarmed at the corruption he has found on his return from Spain, when this masked rider appears, then robs the crooked governor and his wife (J. Edward Bromberg, Gale Sondergaard), in Rouben Mamoulian's The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.

Texas-born teenager Linda Darnell as "Lolita," comfortable enough in old California, meeting her co-star in their third and biggest consecutive 20th Century Fox hit, Tyrone Power as Diego, also the title character, masquerading as a priest, in The Mark Of Zorro, 1940.