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The Mark of Zorro (20th Century-Fox). With an arthritic imitation of Douglas Fairbanks’ sword-and-horseplay, Tyrone Power undertakes the leading role in a remake of Fairbanks’ 1920 classic about a California Robin Hood who made things too hot for a dastard Spanish colonial governor. To pacify the Hays office, the Z-mark is carved only once on real flesh— on a man’s chest instead of his forehead. (The Fairbanks version precipitated a nationwide rage for Z-cutting among small fry.) Basil Rathbone furnishes the dueling opposition for Power, Linda Darnell the fond glances.

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