| Don Juan | |
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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. Alan Crosland (born August 10, 1894; died July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director John Sidney Blyth Barrymore ( February 15 1882 – May 29 1942) was an American Actor, frequently called the greatest Mary Astor ( May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award -winning American Actress. Warner Oland ( October 3, 1879 &ndash August 6, 1938) was a Swedish actor most remembered for his role as " Charlie Byron Conrad Haskin ( April 22, 1899 &ndash April 16, 1984) was an American film and television director Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the |
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| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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Don Juan (1926) is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. Events August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film Don Juan. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Alan Crosland (born August 10, 1894; died July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue. Vitaphone was a Sound film process used on features and nearly 2000 Short subjects produced by Warner Bros 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). Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Sidney Blyth Barrymore ( February 15 1882 – May 29 1942) was an American Actor, frequently called the greatest
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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]
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The following short films made in Vitaphone were shown before Don Juan at the 6 August 1926 premiere: