Two decades after Douglas Fairbanks’ original genre-defining adaptation of author Johnston McCulley’s “The Curse of Capistrano,” the iconic champion of California’s downtrodden was brought to the screen by director Rouben Mamoulian and star Tyrone Power – whose impossibly charming incarnation of the dashing pulp vigilante was included among the American Film Institute’s ranking of the art form’s greatest screen heroes.
Learn more about THE MARK OF ZORRO in the AFI Catalog.