Original Version
The movie is a successful remake of a lavish 1920 smash hit silent version starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Noah Beery, Sr., in which Zorro's costume originated before short story author Johnston McCulley incorporated the iconic outfit into his additional future Zorro stories. The influential original The Mark of Zorro was the first in an extremely popular array of swashbuckler action pictures starring the acrobatic Fairbanks, who'd previously specialized mainly in comedies.
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