Don Juan
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.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The first full length film to ever feature a prerecorded soundtrack, Don Juan stars John Barrymore as a cynical womanizer who finds true love, before others try to sabotage him. Critics were mostly unimpressed with the picture, but audiences came out in droves to see and hear the film with the attached soundtrack.
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Don Juan (1926) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Alan Crosland
- Starring
- John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor, Montagu Love, Josef Swickard, Willard Louis
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