Vintage 8x10 in. US single-weight glossy copy photograph (not a vintage original photo printed at the time it was taken) from the classic 1920's silent film western drama/romance, THE MARK OF ZORRO, released in 1920 by United Artists and directed by Fred Niblo. Based upon the story, "The Curse of Capistrano," by Johnston McCulley from the "All-Story Weekly," a seemingly idiotic fop (Douglas Fairbanks) is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed. The image features a very close interior shot of the masked vigilante, Zorro (Douglas Fairbanks), as he gazes into the beautiful face of Lolita Pulido (Marguerite De La Motte), whom he is in love with, but who does not know that he is actually the foppish man whom her parents want her to marry but whom she has absolutely no interest in. Printed on single-weight stock with a glossy finish, it is in fine- condition with light horizontal scuffs across various portions of the image that are visible when viewing the photo at an angle and a small area of creasing on the bottom right corner in the borders only. Douglas Fairbanks was looking to try something new from the normal boy-meets-girl romance movies he had been making for the previous few years. This is when the actor came across the story of Zorro--originally published in the magazine, "All-Story Weekly." Previous to Fairbanks' portrayal, practically nobody had ever heard of the Robin Hood-like hero, Zorro. The working title of this film was, The Curse of Capistrano. While one contemporary source credits Eugene Miller with the adaptation, modern sources credit Elton Thomas, which was Douglas Fairbanks' pseudonym. McCulley's story was published in book form under the title, The Mark of Zorro, in 1924. Some scenes in the film were shot in the San Fernando Valley in California, where a set representing Los Angeles during the period of 1840 was built. M. Harry Uttenhover of Belgium, a three-time world's champion fencer, was hired to instruct cast members Noah Beery and Robert McKim. The Mark of Zorro marked the first film of Noah Beery, Jr. (1915--1994), son of long-time character actor Noah Beery. Berry, Jr. also had a long career in film and television. In the Golden Age of Comic Books, this was the film to which Thomas and Martha Wayne took their young son Bruce on the night that they were murdered in front of him in Gotham City in 1920, the experience which led him to become Batman.