| Don Juan | |
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| Directed by | Alan Crosland |
| Written by | Walter Anthony (intertitles) Maude Fulton (intertitles) Victor Vance (art titles) |
| Screenplay by | Bess Meredyth |
| Based on | Don Juan 1821 poem by Lord Byron |
| Starring | John Barrymore |
| Cinematography | Byron Haskin |
| Edited by | Harold McCord |
| Music by | William Axt David Mendoza Major Bowes[1] |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
| Budget | $546,000[2] |
| Box office | $1,693,000 (worldwide rental)[3] |
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Don Juan is a 1926 synchronized sound American romantic adventure film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue.[4] The film is inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written by Bess Meredyth with intertitles by Maude Fulton and Walter Anthony.[5]
Don Juan stars John Barrymore as the hand-kissing womanizer.[5]
- ^ The Movie Musical; from Vitaphone to 42nd Street edited by Miles Kreuger c.1973 ISBN 0-486-23154-2
- ^ Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15: 55–73. doi:10.1080/01439689500260031.
- ^ Stephens, E. J.; Wanamaker, Marc (2010). Early Warner Bros. Studios. Arcadia Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-738-58091-3.
- ^ a b White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.