DivX Clásico

Directed by
Alan Crosland

Writing credits
Walter Anthony (titles)
Lord Byron (poem)

Plot Summary:
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.

Complete credited cast:
Jane Winton .... Donna Isobel
John Roche .... Leandro
Warner Oland .... Caesar 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 .... Mai, Lady in Waiting
Mary Astor .... Adriana della Varnese
John Barrymore .... Don Jose de Marana/Don Juan de Marana

User Comment:
Yes, this was the first movie made with a synchronised music score (and some sound effects), but it is much more that that! It is wondrous and spectacular entertainment with brilliant performances and magical camerawork. Like all great silent films there are very few titles because the actors tell the story without words. And what actors they are! John Barrymore is dashing as Don Juan, but he also gives the man great emotional depth - and the scene where he transforms his face while masquerading as a villain reveals not just talent but genius! Remember how he turned from Jekyll to Hyde with no make-up in the 1920 film? He does a similar thing here.

But where would Don Juan be without beautiful women? And here we have three of the most beautiful women ever to grace the scene. Estelle Taylor as Lucrezia Borgia - beautiful but deadly. Mary Astor - bewitchingly young and charmingly innocent. Myrna Loy - exotic and evil, and exquisite!

And the camerawork is superlative. The sword fight and the horseback battle are two of the most excitingly filmed sequences I have ever seen. And the music score is excellent.

This is a wonderful movie.

And who was that incredible actor playing the jealous husband who goes mad? Never seen such brilliant mad acting!



Source:Imdb

Don Juan (Alan Crosland, 1926) pt1.mpg

Don Juan (Alan Crosland, 1926) Pt2.mpg

Belsambar escribió:thanks for the film malachi. I suppose that the intertitles are in english.

Belsambar escribió:you are right, sorry, I must read the title before awnser

David_Holm el 14 de Noviembre escribió:8O 8O Thanks a lot Malachi. Click, click.