Brisbane, Australia: THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920) Feb 1

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The Mark of Zorro
Fred Niblo (1920) 107 mins.
Live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment by David Bailey

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane
1pm, Sunday 1 Feb

‘The film that marked Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s ascension from All American Boy to romantic swashbuckler is perhaps his best film, filled with the good-natured self-parody and dime-store poetry, physical humor and acrobatic finesse that made all the Fairbanks costume dramas non-stop fun. (He wrote, produced and performed all his own stunts in films like this and The Thief of Bagdad.) Fairbanks' Zorro is Batman crossed with Robin Hood: by day, a foppish and foolish aristocrat; by night the mysterious avenger of social wrongs and passionate lover of the beautiful Lolita (Marguerite De La Motte). "He is the very model of the black masked and caped avenger who was to be a central figure in the American pulp fiction and comic book tradition.’ Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive

http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/cinematheq ... nd_legends