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Best Music Original Score | 1941
Budget 1,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 4,000,000 USD
The famous duel was staged by Hollywood fencing master Fred Cavens. Cavens specialized in staging duels that relied more on actual swordplay rather than the jumping on furniture and leaping from balconies that many film "duels" consisted of up until that point. Cavens' son, Albert Cavens, doubled for Tyrone Power in the fancier parts of the duel (mostly with his back to camera), such as the extended exchange with Esteban ending with Don Diego's sword smashing into the bookcase. Basil Rathbone, a champion fencer in real life, did not care for the saber (the weapon of choice in this film), but nevertheless did all of his own fencing. Fast fencing shots were undercranked to 18 or 20 frames per second (as opposed to the standard 24fps) and all the sound effects were post-synchronized.
Linda Darnell was only 16 when she made this film. Tyrone Power, playing her love interest, was 26 by comparison.
Basil Rathbone, being a well-known fencer in his own right, was asked how well Tyrone Power did in their scenes in which stunt doubles were not used. Rathbone responded, "Tyrone Power could fence Errol Flynn into a cocked hat!"
The film is based on "The Curse of Capistrano", written by Johnston McCulley, originally published in 1919 in five serialized installments in "All-Story Weekly", which introduced the masked hero Zorro; the story is set in Southern California during the early 19th century.
Zorro is Spanish for "fox".
"Don Diego Vega: I must please ask you to change the subject. His Excellency objects to talk of throat-cutting. Captain Esteban Pasquale: Quiet, you Popinjay! I have no reason to letting you live either. Don Diego Vega: What a pleasant coincidence. I feel exactly the same way about you Capitan. Captain Esteban Pasquale: You wouldn't care to translate that feeling into action would you? Don Diego Vega: I might be tempted. If I had a weapon. Captain Esteban Pasquale: Would you."
"Don Luis B. Quintero: My dear Esteban is forever thrusting at this and at that. He used to be a fencing instructor in Barcelona. Don Diego Vega: How exhausting. Captain Esteban Pasquale: I didn't find it so. Don Diego Vega: Then why did you give it up? Captain Esteban Pasquale: I had the misfortune to kill a man of influence. Don Luis B. Quintero: A lady was involved, I believe. Don Diego Vega: The gentleman's wife, no doubt? Captain Esteban Pasquale: Just how did you mean that, Señor? Don Diego Vega: I had hoped to be amusing... Have I failed? Captain Esteban Pasquale: Somewhat. With me."
