The Mark of Zorro

US (1940): Adventure

One of several film versions of the tale of Zorro, a dashing swashbuckler by night and a clumsy fop by day. Tyrone Power plays the masked master swordsman who arrives in California in the 1800s to find his father has been deposed and replaced by tyrant Don Luis Quintero (J. Edward Bromberg) and his army. Rouben Mamoulian directs for Fox; cast includes Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone and Gale Sondergaard. (amctv.com)

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· Music Scoring Awards (Original Score) 1940: Alfred Newman

1 nomination