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DON JUAN
(Don Juan, 1926)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016804/

Director: Alan Crosland

Producer: Jack Warner

Screenplay: Bess Meredyth; based on the poem
of the same name by Lord George Gordon Byron

Cinematography: Byron Haskin

Production Design: Ben Carre

Music: William Axt

Cast:
John Barrymore (Don Juan)
Mary Astor (Adriana Della Varnese)
Willard Louis (Pedrillo)
Estelle Taylor (Lucretia Borgia)
Helene Costello (Rena)
Count Donati (Montague Love)
Warner Oland (Caesar Borgia)
Myrna Loy (Maria, Lady in Waiting)
Josef Swickard (Duke Della Varnese).

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Sinopsis

Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track
(consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate
production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without
musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Don Juan,
raised by his cynical father (also played by Barrymore) to "love 'em and leave 'em",
and to never trust any woman. All of this changes when he meets the beautiful
Adriana Della Varnese (Mary Astor). When it seems that Adriana has betrayed him
in favor of a wealthy marriage to the lecherous Count Donati (Montague Love),
Don Juan renounces her and returns to his rakish ways. What he doesn't know is
that Adriana is a political pawn, who has been forced into an alliance with
Donati by the calculating Borgias (Estelle Taylor and Noah Beery Sr.).
By the time Don Juan finds out that his true love is still true, he has been
tossed in prison for killing Donati in a spectacular duel. He breaks out,
rescues Adriana from the Borgias' torture chamber, and escapes with his beloved
to the safety of Spain. The plot is, of course, more complicated than that,
but so fascinating is John Barrymore's performance that it's difficult
to concentrate on anything else. The film's highlights include the out-sized duel
between Barrymore and Montague Love, capped by Barrymore's spectacular leap
from the top of a huge staircase, and the torture chamber sequences,
wherein Barrymore sneaks past the Borgia guards by assuming the facial characteristics
of fiendish torturer Gustav von Seyfertitz--and this without makeup.
"In the know" film historians may read a lot more into the Barrymore/Mary Astor
love scenes than is readily apparent, forearmed as they are with the knowledge
that John and Mary had once been passionate lovers offscreen. Scenarist Bess Meredyth
used the Lord Byron poem Don Juan as a mere stepping stone for this imaginative,
exquisitely filmed romantic adventure. ~ Hal Erickson @allmovie.com

Datos técnicos.

Occasional TCM watermark
ESS standalone friendly
Not IVTC-ed
The film is silent but has its original musical soundtrack.

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