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3 unusual facts about The Mark of Zorro


The Curse of Capistrano

After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name by Grosset & Dunlap.

The Mark of Zorro

The Curse of Capistrano, a serialised Zorro story re-published in novella form as The Mark of Zorro in 1920

The Mask of Zorro, 1998 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas


Montagu Love

However, he also played gruff authoritarian figures, such as Monsieur Cavaignac, who, contrary to history, demands the resignation of those responsible for the Dreyfus coverup, in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), as well as Don Alejandro de la Vega, whose son appears to be a fop but is actually Zorro, in the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power.


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