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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 |  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).
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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
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]
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
External links
- Don Juan at the Internet Movie Database
