Description

The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure film was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story “The Curse of Capistrano” by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks (as “Elton Thomas”) and Eugene Miller.

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks as Don Diego Vega/Señor Zorro
• Marguerite De La Motte as Lolita Pulido
• Noah Beery, Sr. as Sergeant Pedro Gonzales
• Charles Hill Mailes as Don Carlos Pulido
• Claire McDowell as Doña Catalina Pulido
• Robert McKim (actor) as Captain Juan Ramon
• George Periolat as Governor Alvarado
• Walt Whitman (actor) as Father Felipe
• Sidney De Gray as Don Alejandro Vega
• Tote Du Crow as Bernardo, Don Diego’s mute servant
• Noah Beery, Jr. as Boy
• Charles Stevens (actor) as Peon beaten by Sergeant Gonzales
• Milton Berle (uncredited child)