---
title: 'The Mark of Zorro (1920)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Fred Niblo'
released: '1920-11-27'
runtime_minutes: 91
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-mark-of-zorro-1920'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011439/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Mark of Zorro (1920)

1920 · 91 min · Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks and Eugene Miller. Zorro is a character reminiscent of Baroness Orczy's masked hero The Scarlet Pimpernel.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Douglas Fairbanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks)
- **Producer:** [Douglas Fairbanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks)
- **Director:** [Fred Niblo](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-niblo)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mortimer Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mortimer-wilson)
- **Director of Photography:** [William C. McGann](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-c-mcgann)
- **Editor:** [Bill Nolan](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-nolan)

## Cast

- [Charles Hill Mailes](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-hill-mailes)
- [Robert McKim](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mckim)
- [George Periolat](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-periolat)
- [Noah Beery Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-beery-jr)
- [Walt Whitman](https://cinepixo.com/people/walt-whitman)
- [Noah Beery, Sr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-beery-sr)
- [Milton Berle](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-berle)
- [Tote Du Crow](https://cinepixo.com/people/tote-du-crow)
- [Marguerite De La Motte](https://cinepixo.com/people/marguerite-de-la-motte)
- [Douglas Fairbanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks)
- [Claire McDowell](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-mcdowell)
- [Charles Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-stevens)

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