“The Curse of Capistrano,” Johnston McCulley’s first Zorro story, appears in pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. A hero is born. Fred Niblo directs “The Mark of Zorro,” based on “The Curse of Capistrano” ...

The 1940 version of The Mask of Zorro is more than a swashbuckling film featuring Zorro and his skills with the sword. It is ...

In this day and age in which the major box office champions tend to be superheroes who fight the forces of evil from behind a mask, it’s interesting to note that although the heroes may change over ...

One of the best swashbucklers ever made. Tyrone Power is Don Diego de Vega—the son of a nobleman out to save the peasants of Olde Californy (and Linda Darnell) from the villainous Basil Rathbone.

“The Mark of Zorro” (Rouben Mamoulian, 1940) at 10:30 a.m. on Turner Classic Movies. Mamoulian’s version of Johnston McCulley’s pop classic about another masked Robin Hood leading a double life as a ...