INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen the classic 1920 silent film, Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Noah Beery, Sr., and Marguerite de la Motte, at the Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Drive, on May 19, at 8 p.m.
In old California, a rich landowner sends his son (Fairbanks) to Spain for education. When he returns, the young man is a simpering homebody, according to Grayson, unable to stand up to the increasingly corrupt government officials who beat priests and kill peasants. No one suspects that the young nobleman is actually the vigilante hero Zorro, who uses his secret identity to fight injustice and defend the downtrodden.
Fairbanks does all of his own amazing stunts in this film, Grayson added. “He’s the very soul of irrational exuberance: no one ever danced around the screen as he does as Zorro, with swashbuckling swordplay and daring leaps between buildings.”
The silent film will be accompanied by live score by Roger Lippincott and preceded by a silent short (also accompanied by Lippincott). Admission is $5; concessions are $1For more information, visit www.gpacarts.org or call 317-327-7135.
