The Mark of Zorro (1920) With Live Musical Accompaniment October 29, 2008

Organist Tom Trenney returns for another exciting evening of improvised accompaniment to a silent film. This year Trenney will accompany a screening of Fred Niblo's 1920 classic, 'The Mark of Zorro.' In 'The Mark of Zorro,' his first full-blown effort at the costume thriller, Douglas Fairbanks portrays Don Diego Vega, a comically effete young nobleman with a taste for tasseled sombreros and juvenile silk-hanky magic tricks. But when danger calls, Diego swathes himself in black, straps on a well-honed sword, and storms the countryside as the mysterious Zorro, slicing his initial into the faces of the ''sentinels of oppression,'' pausing only to boldly romance the woman (Marguerite De La Motte) to whom his shy alter ego can hardly summon the courage to speak.