Un jeune aristocrate doit prétendre être un dandy pour protéger son identité secrète de Zorro alors qu'il rétablit la justice dans la Californie naissante.Un jeune aristocrate doit prétendre être un dandy pour protéger son identité secrète de Zorro alors qu'il rétablit la justice dans la Californie naissante.Un jeune aristocrate doit prétendre être un dandy pour protéger son identité secrète de Zorro alors qu'il rétablit la justice dans la Californie naissante.
- Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total
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- (uncredited)
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- AnecdotesThe famous duel was staged by Hollywood fencing master Fred Cavens. He specialized in staging duels that relied more on real swordplay rather than the jumping on furniture and leaping from balconies that many film duels incorporated 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 under-cranked to 18 or 20 frames per second (as opposed to the standard 24fps) and all the sound effects were post-synchronized.
- GaffesWhen Diego dines with the Quinteros, Inez asks him to show them the new dance steps. He and Lolita then dance together, but somehow the sheltered young Lolita knows the dance perfectly. This doesn't make sense if it contains new dance steps that even society-mad Inez doesn't know.
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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.
- Générique farfeluOpening credits prologue: MADRID - when the Spanish Empire encompassed the globe, and young blades were taught the fine and fashionable art of killing ...
- Autres versionsAlso available in a colorized version.
- ConnexionsEdited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Power - in a double leading role - is at his best as Zorro, climbing, jumping, riding and fencing, determined to finish with tyranny and oppression by terrorizing, and retrieving taxation funds and by challenging a cunning officer, proving in public his indifference, his ostentation and irony as a perfect pacifist fop in 19th-Century Spanish California, confusing and deceiving his aristocratic father Don Alejandro Vega (Montagu Love), the deposed Alcalde...
The inspired casting (in supporting roles) recalls "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
Linda Darnell is the pretty Lolita, Quintero's charming niece, who loves the mysterious hero and can't tolerate the fop until she is told that they are the image of the same person...
Basil Rathbone, one of the most durable of screen villains who has mastered stage fencing but never won a Swordfight, plays the cruel captain Esteban Pasquale, the Alcalde's military adviser... He is a second-rate soldier of fortune who leads the campaign of frustrating taxation, who considered Diego "a fancy clown" but who suggests a practical plan, an alliance for the good of the state...
J. Edward Bromberg is the cowardly Alcalde, Don Luis Quintero, a corrupted thief, enemy of the people, whose tyranny and avarice are always enforced by the treachery of his iron hand, the rigorous captain Esteban...
Eugene Palette plays the mission 'fat' priest (Father Felipe) who ignores that Diego is the opposing force...
The high point of the picture is the fantastic duel between Power and Rathbone, a masterpiece of screen Swordplay...
Rouben Mamoulian succeeds in making two great stars dance to an unheard music... With a touch of a great filmmaker, Mamoulian mixes harmoniously movement and action, decor and lightning with rage and turmoil, heroism and romance...
Under Alfred Newman's Oscar-Nominated score and despite the unusual absence of Technicolor, the film (the first of the great Tyrone Power swashbucklers ) is great fun, full of vitality and suspense, an exciting, deliciously ironic swashbuckler...
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
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- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- The Californian
- Lieux de tournage
- société de production
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- Budget
- 1 000 000 $ US (estimation)
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 10 248 $ US
- Durée1 heure 34 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1