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Mark Of The Renegade (1951)

• Director
  • Hugo Fregonese
• Writers
  • Johnston McCulley(based on novel "Mark of Zorro")
  • Robert Hardy Andrews(screenplay)
  • Louis Solomon(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Ricardo Montalban
  • Cyd Charisse
  • J. Carrol Naish

  MGM's Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse were loaned to Universal for the Technicolor period piece Mark of the Renegade. Set in 19th-century California, the film stars Montalban as Marcos, in league with a band of pirates. Marcos falls into the hands of Don Pedro Garcia (Gilbert Roland), a despot who hopes to become dictator of California. Planning to force the cooperation of benevolent politico Jose De Vasquez (Antonio Moreno), Garcia orders Marcos to court De Vasquez' comely daughter Anita (Cyd Charisse). It soon develops that Marcos is not the criminal he appears to be, and that he is dedicated to the vanquishing of the evil Garcia. Somehow, Mark of the Renegade finds an excuse for Cyd Charisse to perform a bewitching dance number.