Don Juan (1926 film)
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Don Juan is a 1926's Warner Bros' silent film, directed by Alan Crosland. The first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, but without spoken dialogue. The production was premiered in New York on August 6, 1926, and starred John Barrymore as the hand-kissing womanizer (the number of kisses in the film set a record).
Plot
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.[link]
Cast
- Jane Winton
- John Roche
- Warner Oland
- Estelle Taylor
- Montagu Love
- Josef Swickard
- Willard Louis
- Nigel De Brulier
- Hedda Hopper
- Myrna Loy
- Mary Astor
- John Barrymore
- Lionel Braham
- Helene Costello
- Helena D'Algy
- Yvonne Day
- Philippe De Lacy
- Emily Fitzroy
- John George
- Gibson Gowland
- Phyllis Haver
- Sheldon Lewis
- June Marlowe
- Dick Sutherland
- Gustav von Seyffertitz
- Helen Lee Worthing
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