THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) ***1/2 Tyrone Power is a slightly uneven, but in his finest moments his is the magic of Hollywood. He's especially great at getting over the duality of the nature of Zorro: the aloof and annoying student and the courageous hero of all that is good and just. Having established both roles, the offhand nasal, effete and ambiguous murmerings of the civilian Don Diego are nothing short of hysterical. Linda Darnell is young and sweet as the love interest, and Basil Rathbone should be stabbed! Which Zorro eventually does in a splendid scene of swords and swashbuckling and such.
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