

The film has been remade twice, once in 1940 (starring Tyrone Power) and again in 1974 (starring Frank Langella). He portrayed a young child his father began sporadically billing himself as Noah Beery Sr. makes his first of many dozens of screen appearance spanning six decades. The film was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, and was the first film released through United Artists, the company formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. Based on the 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks (as "Elton Thomas") and Eugene Miller. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro. The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery.
