The Mark of Zorro (1974 film)
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| Genre | Western Action Adventure |
| Written by | John Taintor Foote (screenplay) Brian Taggart (teleplay) Based on the story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley |
| Directed by | Don McDougall |
| Starring |
Frank Langella Ricardo Montalban |
| Theme music composer | Dominic Frontiere |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Rodrick Paul Robert C. Thompson |
| Location(s) | Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, [Tucson, Arizona]] San Xavier del Bac Mission - 1950 W. San Xavier Rd, Tucson, Arizona |
| Cinematography | Jack Woolf |
| Editor(s) | William Martin |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
20th Century Fox Television Thompson-Paul Productions ABC |
| Distributor | ABC |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 29, 1974 |
The Mark of Zorro is a 1974 television film and also a backdoor pilot for a television series which ABC-TV declined to pick up. The film used Alfred Newman's musical score for the 1940 film version along with new incidental music composed by Dominic Frontiere.
The plot follows the 1940 version almost scene-for-scene. In the 1840s, the foppish Don Diego Dela Vega returns from Spain to his family in California to find that his father has been replaced as ruler of the area by the cruel ruler Don Luis Quintero. Despite being a skilled swordsman, Diego downplays his skills in front of the evil Captain Esteban and shows himself to be rather a clown in front of his family. However, Diego secretly picks up the sword of justice as Zorro and fights to return justice to the region and his people.
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