Don Juan (film)

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Don Juan
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Directed by	Alan Crosland
Starring	John Barrymore Mary Astor Warner Oland
Music by	William Axt David Mendoza
Cinematography	Byron Haskin
Editing by	Harold McCord
Release date(s)	August 6, 1926 USA
Running time	167 min.
Country	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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Don Juan (1926) is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue. The production, which premiered in New York City on August 6, 1926, stars John Barrymore as the hand-kissing womanizer (the number of kisses in the film set a record).

1 Program of Vitaphone Shorts Shown Before Don Juan
2 Plot
3 Cast
4 External links

[edit] Program of Vitaphone Shorts Shown Before Don Juan

The following short films made in Vitaphone were shown before Don Juan at the 6 August 1926 premiere:

Introductory Remarks by Will H. Hays
The New York Philharmonic, under the direction of Henry Hadley, plays the overture to Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser
Roy Smeck, billed as "The Wizard of the Strings" in His Pastimes
Anna Case and The Dancing Cansinos in La Fiesta
Mischa Elman performs "Humoresque" by Antonín Dvořák
Giovanni Martinelli sings "Vesti la giubba" from I Pagliacci

[edit] 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 Tiber.[1]