Doors open 19:00 | Screening 19:45

Dress code: Zorro-esque or HippFest glamour
Live music pre-screening by Rapido Mariachi

Dual identity: check! Secret lair: check! Black mask and cape: check! The original caped crusader...1920s style!

Don Diego Vega (Douglas Fairbanks) masquerades as an ineffectual fop to bamboozle his enemies and conceal his secret persona: Zorro - avenger of the oppressed. The first King of Hollywood - dashing, athletic Fairbanks, pretty much defined the swashbuckling genre with this rip-roaring adventure flick. Featuring horseback stunts, witty chase sequences and sword fighting, this entertaining romp achieves a satisfying blend of humour and heroics that remains the benchmark for action films today.

Dir. Fred Niblo | US | 1920 | N/C U | 1h 25m + shorts accompanied by Forrester Pyke
With: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, Noah Beery

Performing Live: Neil Brand (piano) and Frank Bockius (percussion)

This presentation is by arrangement with Photoplay Productions and Patrick J. Stanbury
Flipbook short screening material courtesy of San Francisco Silent Film Festival

BSL-English supported event

Supported by the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme

Supported by the Corbie Inn

Images courtesy of Photoplay Productions, presentation by arrangement with Photoplay Productions and Patrick J Stanbury