Don Juan

Duration: 1:53:00

Genre: adventure

Year Published: 1926

Creator: Warner Bros Pictures Inc

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Crosland, Alan, 1894-1936.; Meredyth, Bess.; Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984.; Barrymore, John, 1882-1942.; Winton, Jane, 1905-1959.; Roche, John, 1896-1952.; Oland, Warner, 1880-1938.; Taylor, Estelle, 1894-1958.; Love, Montagu, 1877-1943.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Vitaphone Corp.
Cast: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor

Description: Copyright notice: c1926 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.; Photography, Byron Haskin.; John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor, Montague Love.; "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"-- Internet Movie Database.; PFA 1616-01-9385. D0247; Silent film with synchronized music and English intertitles.; PFA 1616-01-9385. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2006/11/ 30 good condition.

Don José, warned of wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle. Ten years later, Don Juan, a graduate of the University of Pisa, is famous as a lover and pursued by many women. His contempt for Lucrezia Borgia incites her hatred of Adriana, the daughter of the Duke Della Varnese, with whom he is enraptured. She plots to marry her to Count Giano Donati, one of the Borgia henchmen, and poison the duke. Don Juan intervenes and thwarts

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