The Mark of Zorro is a 1974 American Western television film which stars Frank Langella alongside Gilbert Roland, Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Archer, Ricardo Montalbán and Robert Middleton.

After receiving a letter from his father requesting his immediate return home, Don Diego de la Vega resigns his commission as a cadet and sails from Spain to California.

Quintero is a puppet of the witty and urbane swordsman, Captain Esteban, and the once-free populace are oppressed by high taxes and cruel laws.

Determined to restore freedom, Diego secretly takes one of a pair of ancestral swords and adopts the disguise of the legendary masked hero, El Zorro.

Here was a chance to play on three levels: the young cadet in Spain, the fop Don Diego - and, in his mask, Zorro.

I was reliving myself as a small boy sitting in the dark theatre thrilling to Tyrone Power riding through the night as Zorro.