The Mask Of Zorro is a sweeping romantic adventure of love and honor, of tragedy and triumph set against Mexico's fight for indepedence from the iron fist of Spain. It is also a rousing, often hilarious swashbuckling fable about how a roguish outlaw whose only knowledge of a sword is that "the pointy end goes into the other man" is transformed into an elegant hero. - Two 1821 avengers fight Spanish oppressors.