for change from the time he arrived back in California and saw just how bad things had become in Los Angeles during his absence. Cast Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega/Zorro Linda Darnell as Lolita Quintero Basil Rathbone as Captain Esteban Pasquale Gale Sondergaard as Inez Quintero Eugene Pallette as Friar Felipe J. Edward Bromberg as Don Luis Quintero Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega Janet Beecher as Senora Isabella Vega George Regas as Sergeant Gonzales Chris-Pin Martin as Turnkey Robert Lowery as Rodrigo Belle Mitchell as Maria John Bleifer as Pedro Frank Puglia as Proprietor Eugene Borden as Officer of the Day Pedro de Cordoba as Don Miguel Guy D'Ennery as Don José Stanley Andrews as Commanding Officer (uncredited) Fortunio Bonanova as Sentry (uncredited) Charles Stevens as José (uncredited) Remake and music score The Mark of Zorro (1974) is a made-for-television remake film starring Frank Langella and co-starring Ricardo Montalbán in the roles of Power and Rathbone. It reuses Alfred Newman's original film score, along with new incidental music composed by Dominic Frontiere. Portions of Newman’s original music score were reused by composer Ian Fraser for the George Hamilton swashbuckling comedy film Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981). The film's storyline is a tongue-in-cheek sequel to the original 1940 film. 1920 silent version The Mark of Zorro is a sound remake of the lavish 1920 smash-hit silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks as Zorro and Noah Beery Sr. as Sergeant Gonzales. This film depiction includes Don Diego's mother, Isabella, but it omits Bernardo (Don Diego's mute servant). That 1920 feature introduced Zorro's iconic all-black costume, subsequently incorporated into Johnston McCulley's later Zorro stories in his original fiction series upon which Fairbanks' film had been based. The 1920 film was the first in a popular array of swashbuckler action features starring the acrobatic Fairbanks, who had previously appeared mainly in comedies. Clips from the film were incorporated into The Artist nine decades later. Acknowledging that director Mamoulian’s 1940 version is a “tongue-in-cheek” remake of the Douglas Fairbanks' 1920 swashbuckler, film critic Todd Wiener observes: Batman connection In the DC Comics continuity, The Mark of Zorro was established as the film that the eight-year-old Bruce Wayne had seen with his parents, Thomas and Martha, at a movie theater, only moments before they were killed in front of him by an armed thug (later retconned to be Joe Chill). Zorro is often portrayed as