Don Juan
Short description
Don Juan is a 1926 adventure romance from Warner Bros., directed by Alan Crosland from a screenplay by Bess Meredyth. John Barrymore plays both Don Jose de Marana and his son Don Juan, a Spanish nobleman who takes his father's bitter lesson about women to heart and becomes a notorious seducer. Settling in Rome, he runs afoul of the ruling Borgia family after he ignores the advances of Lucrezia Borgia and kills Count Giano Donati in a duel, a conflict that lands him and the woman he truly loves in prison.
The cast includes Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland as Cesare Borgia, Estelle Taylor as Lucrezia Borgia and Montagu Love as Donati, among 27 credited performers. The film was released in August 1926 and runs 112 minutes. It stands between two other Crosland pictures, The Flapper and The Jazz Singer, and it is remembered for its use of the Vitaphone sound system, which synchronized music and sound effects to the images even though the story itself is told without spoken dialogue.
On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.6 out of 10 from a small number of votes, a modest but positive response from those who have seen it.
What's left behind the scenes
- This is the first film shot using the 'Vitaphone' system. The technology did not involve creating a combined soundtrack on the film print. Instead, the film's audio was recorded on a gramophone record, which was played by a player synchronized with the cinema projector via a common drive. For 16-inch (40.64 centimeter) records, a speed of 33 ⅓ rpm was used for the first time, which was very low for that era. Conversely, the standard filming and projection rate increased to 24 frames per second, compared to 16 in silent films.
- The film contains the most kisses in the history of cinema. Throughout the movie, Don Juan kisses Adriana and Lucretia a total of 127 times.
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