The Mark of Zorro

Lolita Pulido:
Why do wear a mask?

Zorro:
Perhaps to hide the features of a De Bergerac.

Undetermined role:
We never let business interfere with drinking!

Zorro:
I give you a safe rule, good landlady. Never do anything on an empty stomach - but eat!

[Diego is apathetically wooing the woman his father commanded him to marry]

Zorro:
I have a servant - a wonder at the guitar. Tonight I shall order him to come out and play beneath your window.

Lolita Pulido:
I have a maid - passionately fond of music!

[Zorro is passionately wooing Lolita]

Zorro:
If this could be - The high Sierras I would level to your feet - The wild waves on Capistrano's shore should pay you homage - I'd make the desert a million roses yield - - to die in shame before your beauty- If this could be!

Title Card:
Oppression - by its very nature - creates the power that crushes it. A champion arises - a champion of the oppressed - whether it be a Cromwell or someone unrecorded, he will be there. He is born.

Title Card:
- out of the mystery of the unknown - appeared a masked rider who rode up and down the great highway...

Soldier with 'Z' Carved on His Face:
This Zorro comes upon you like a graveyard ghost and like a ghost he disappears.

Lolita Pulido:
If I were only a man - I'd ride the highway like this Zorro...

Sgt. Pedro Gonzales:
It's a good thing for that carver of Z's that he keeps out of reach of my sword. I'll carve Gonzales all over his body.

Don Diego Vega:
Fetch me a pot of honey - - and serve wine to everybody.

Don Diego Vega:
I detest swords and bloodshed - but - to rid our beautiful country of a menace is a noble deed.

Zorro:
Justice for all! Punishment for the oppressors of the helpless - from the governor down.

Lolita Pulido:
He isn't a man - he's a fish!

Zorro:
Once, in a garden I saw a beautiful rose - I sought to pluck it - quickly. It stung me - Then - - slowly - - cautiously - I reached for it - - and the rose was mine!

Lolita Pulido:
Indeed! Then I'm but another rose?

Zorro:
An, no se?orita. You are too wonderful! I dare not even hope.

Lolita Pulido:
Your swordsmanship? Where did you learn the blade?

Zorro:
In Spain, se?orita, where there are no eyes like yours.

Zorro:
Oh, such lips! Turn not away. Your face is heaven - all else is blackness!

Sgt. Pedro Gonzales:
We seek the vulture, Zorro!

Don Diego Vega:
You're too fat, Gonzales. Poison the mountain tops and set your traps in the clouds - perhaps you'll have better luck.

Lolita Pulido:
I - give you - freely - the kiss he would have taken. [Kiss] I fear for your safety, se?or.

Zorro:
Fear not - their wits are as slow as their blades. The weapons you use pierce deep, se?orita.

Don Diego Vega:
So many unpleasant things happen - - it is most fatiguing.

Zorro:
You idlers! You wasters! You fashion-plates! You sit and sip your wine while the naked back of an unprotesting soldier of Christ is lashed with the whip!

Zorro:
The heaven-kissed hills of your native California swarm with the sentinels of oppression! Are your pulses dead? Thank God, mine is not - and I pledge you my blood's as noble as the best!

Zorro:
No force that tyranny could bring would dare oppose us - once united. Our country's out of joint. It is for us caballeros, and us alone, to set it right!

Zorro:
Justice for all!

Zorro:
You trust me, Se?orita?

Lolita Pulido:
To love is to trust, se?or.

Lolita Pulido:
You talk - you fight - you look like Zorro!

Don Diego Vega:
And I love like Zorro...