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 as Captain Juan Ramon George Periolat as Governor Alvarado Walt Whitman 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 as Peon beaten by Sergeant Gonzales Milton Berle (uncredited child) Reception and impact The New York Times gave The Mark of Zorro a mixed review. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance, assessing the film's legacy in 2008, writes: "The Mark of Zorro is a landmark, not only in the career of Douglas Fairbanks, but also in the development of the action-adventure film. With this, his thirtieth motion picture, Fairbanks was transitioning from comedies to the costume films for which he is best remembered. Instead of reflecting the times, The Mark of Zorro offers an infusion of the romantic past with a contemporary flair ... Beyond reenergizing his career and redefining a genre, Fairbanks's The Mark of Zorro helped popularize one of the enduring creations of twentieth-century American fiction, a character who was the prototype for comic book heroes such as Batman." The Mark of Zorro was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012. Batman connection In the DC Comics continuity, it is established that The Mark of Zorro was the film that the young Bruce Wayne had seen with his parents at a movie theater, moments before they were killed in front of his eyes by an armed thug. Zorro is often portrayed as Bruce's childhood hero and an influence on his Batman persona. There are discrepancies regarding which version Bruce saw: The Dark Knight Returns claims it was the Tyrone Power version, whereas a story by Alan Grant claimed it to be the silent 1920 original. Bill Finger was himself inspired by Fairbanks' Zorro, including similarities in costumes, the "Bat Cave" and Zorro's cave, and unexpected secret identities, especially since the Batman character predates the Tyrone Power remake by a year. The posters for 1940's The Mark of Zorro and the 1981 film Excalibur were used for a scene in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In the animated series Justice League Unlimited, a flashback of the fateful night establishes that for DCAU continuity Bruce and