Don Q Son of Zorro

1925 WesternAdventure 111 minutes Directed by Donald Crisp

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About Don Q Son of Zorro

Cesar de Vega, son of Zorro, is in Spain. Showing off a whip, he clips the feather from Don Sebastian's hat. A duel stops when a bull traps Sebastian and Cesar saves him, which makes Sebastian angrier. Queen Isabella has noticed. Cesar falls in love with Dolores de Muro. Sebastian, who wants her money, stabs Archduke Paul at a ball and sees that Cesar is blamed. Cesar appears to stab himself into the moat, then hides in the family ruins as Don Q. His father arrives from California as Zorro. The men who framed Cesar are taken, and he is restored to Dolores.

Cast & crew

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Donald Crisp directed and plays Don Sebastian. Douglas Fairbanks produced and plays both Cesar and Zorro. Jack Cunningham and Lotta Woods wrote the script from the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story by Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, reworked around the Zorro character. Henry Sharp photographed. Mortimer Wilson wrote the music. William Nolan edited. United Artists distributed it. Released 15 June 1925. 111 minutes. Mary Astor plays Dolores de Muro. Jack McDonald is General de Muro. Stella De Lanti is the Queen. Warner Oland is the Archduke. Jean Hersholt is Don Fabrique Borusta. Lottie Pickford plays Lola. Tote Du Crow plays Bernardo.

Themes

  • A son with his father's whip
  • A murder pinned on the guest
  • A dead man hiding in a ruin
  • Douglas Fairbanks
  • Don Cesar
  • Dolores
  • Don Sebastian
  • Zorro

Making

Fairbanks had the Hesketh-Prichard novel rewritten so the hero could be Zorro's son, and he produced it through the Elton Corporation for United Artists.

Reviews

The New York Times included Don Q, Son of Zorro among its ten best films of 1925.

Audiences

U.S. and Canada rentals were $1,500,000.

Look

Henry Sharp photographed the whip work, the bull, the ball, and the ruin.

Music

Mortimer Wilson composed the score.

Preservation

A print is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • It is a sequel to The Mark of Zorro (1920). Fairbanks plays the son and, when the father arrives, Zorro again.
  • Crisp is both the director and the villain.
  • Albert MacQuarrie plays Colonel Matsado. Charles Stevens plays Robledo.
  • The New York Times put it on its list of the ten best films of 1925.

Scenes

  • The whip takes the feather off Sebastian's hat.
  • Cesar pulls Sebastian out from under the bull.
  • He seems to fall dead into the moat, and later meets his father in the ruins.

Influenced by

  • The Mark of Zorro (1920)
  • Don Q.'s Love Story

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Don Q Son of Zorro.webm)

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