Catch the film that was the first to put “swash” and “buckling” together — The Mark of Zorro! This is the 1920 silent-film version of the classic Latin-lover/undercover-hero-to-the-poor/audacious-enemy-to-the-rich action story. Back then, the character was still a newcomer — he was based on a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley, “The…
