Don Juan (1926 film)

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).

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 their evil cousin 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.

Cast

• John Barrymore - Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
• Jane Winton - Donna Isobel
• John Roche - Leandro
• Warner Oland - Cesare Borgia
• Estelle Taylor - Lucrezia Borgia
• Montagu Love - Count Giano Donati
• Josef Swickard - Duke Della Varnese
• Willard Louis - Pedrillo
• Nigel De Brulier - Marchese Rinaldo
• Hedda Hopper - Marchesia Rinaldo
• Myrna Loy -......
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