This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe...

In The mark of Zorro, his first full-blown effort at the costume thriller, Fairbanks portrays Don Diego Vega, a comically effete young nobleman with a taste for tasseled sombreros and juvenile silk-hanky magic tricks.

Zorro, the masked avenger, rides into the night to battle corruption and greed in a small Spanish-American village.

When Don Diego de le Vega returns to his family home outside of Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, he discovers that a cruel military commander has taken control of the town. He creates a master swordsman alter ego, Zorro, to fight the commander's oppression while "masquerading" as the frivolous local Don.