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The Mark of Zorro - Featuring the Original 1920 Score

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I just finished watching this. The print is Good. The Orchestra is Great.The Original Score is quite good. The Sound is Fantastic. This Orchestra and Conductor should do the rest of the Fairbanks films and more.I have been so thrilled since The Thief of Bagdad with Carl Davis which Came out on Laser Disc also Ben Hur by Davis.

There are many Zorro movies out there and each brings with it a unique character. This version has all the energy and routines of Douglas Fairbanks. In this version Zorro disguises himself with a fake mustache along with the standard mask. He is to wed the daughter (Marguerite De La Motte) of a nobleman (Charles Hill Mailes) that was stripped of his wealth by the governor (George Periolat.)

"Oppression- by its very nature-creates the power that crushes it. A champion arises-a champion of the oppressed- whether it be a Cromwell or someone unrecorded, he will be there. He is born."

Zorro, the Gay Blade

I purchased this for my parents and they love it. This was the first silent movie I have seen in a long time. It was fun watching this old of a movie. Douglas Fairbanks did a great job.

The trouble with most silent films is not because they're silent, but because of the awful and usually disconnected music tracks distributors have put to them. Even if they had to go to a public domain library source I could understand that, as long as they selected pieces approapriate to the scenes. But sometimes you want to scream and I know I do "THIS MUSIC MAKES NO SENSE! DID THEY EVEN WATCH THIS MOVIE?" Fortunately this dvd has the music that makes sense (most of the time.) Sometimes it goes a little over the top where it shouldn't.But at least you know someone in control did watch the movie. Performed by the Paragon Orchestra this soundtrack will increase your viewing pleasure. I know it did mine. I have the piano only version as a bonus feature on my Duncan Regerh Zorro box set and it really make it painful to watch. As far as the visual end goes, the movie is shown mostly in sepia tint with ocassional blue tint and green tint. I have Zorro The Bold Caballero 1936 (a two-strip color film) and The Mark of Zorro 1940 (colorized). See my reviews, but be warned I was not kind I was honest.