Don Juan (1926 film)

Don Juan is a 1926 American romantic adventuredrama film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first featurelength film to utilize the Vitaphone soundondisc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. The film is inspired by Lord Byrons 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written by Bess Meredyth with intertitles by Maude Fulton and Walter Anthony.

In the prologue, Don Jos, warned of his wifes infidelity, seals his wifes lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle abandoned to his lust, he is stabbed by his last mistress, and with his dying words he implores his son, Don Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing. Ten years later, young Don Juan a graduate of the University of Pisa, is famous as a lover and pursued by many women, including the powerful Lucretia Borgia, who invites him to her ball his contempt for her incites her hatred of Adriana, the daughter of the Duke Della Varnese, with whom he is enraptured and Lucretia plots to marry her to Donati and poison the duke. Don Juan intervenes and thwarts the scheme, winning the love of Adriana, but the Borgia declare war on the dukes kinsmen, offering them safety if Adriana marries Donati Don Juan is summoned to the wedding, but he prefers death to marriage with Lucretia. He escapes and kills Donati in a duel the lovers are led to the deathtower, but while Adriana pretends suicide, he escapes and following a series of battles, he defeats his pursuers and is united with Adriana.George Groves, on assignment from The Vitaphone Corporation, was charged with recording the soundtrack to the film. He devised an innovative, multimicrophone technique and performed a live mix of the 107strong orchestra. In doing so he became the first music mixer in film history. ........

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