16mm Action - Adv Classic DON JUAN John Barrymore Swashbuckler Classic Vitaphone
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:25462902 | Film Format: 16mm |
| Leading Role: John Barrymore | Actor: John Barrymore |
| Sub-Genre: Adventure, Swashbuckler | Genre: Action & Adventure |
Offered here is a 16mm b&w Sound print of "DON JUAN" from 1926 starring John Barrymore and Mary AstorSynopsis by Hal Erickson courtesy all movie.com Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) “Don Juan” is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Don Juan, raised... by his cynical father (also played by Barrymore) to "love 'em and leave 'em", and to never trust any woman. All of this changes when he meets the beautiful Adriana Della Varnese (Mary Astor). When it seems that Adriana has betrayed him in favor of a wealthy marriage to the lecherous Count Donati (Montague Love), Don Juan renounces her and returns to his rakish ways. What he doesn't know is that Adriana is a political pawn, who has been forced into an alliance with Donati by the calculating Borgias (Estelle Taylor and Noah Beery Sr.). By the time Don Juan finds out that his true love is still true, he has been tossed in prison for killing Donati in a spectacular duel. He breaks out, rescues Adriana from the Borgias' torture chamber, and escapes with his beloved to the safety of Spain. The plot is, of course, more complicated than that, but so fascinating is John Barrymore's performance that it's difficult to concentrate on anything else. The film's highlights include the out-sized duel between Barrymore and Montagu Love, capped by Barrymore's spectacular leap from the top of a huge staircase, and the torture chamber sequences, wherein Barrymore sneaks past the Borgia guards by assuming the facial characteristics of fiendish torturer Gustav von Seyfertitz--and this without makeup. "In the know" film historians may read a lot more into the Barrymore/Mary Astor love scenes than is readily apparent, forearmed as they are with the knowledge that John and Mary had once been passionate lovers offscreen. Scenarist Bess Meredyth used the Lord Byron poem Don Juan as a mere stepping stone for this imaginative, exquisitely filmed romantic adventure.
ABOUT THE PRINT - This is probably a 1970's era print and is in excellent condition with no warpage or V.S. associated with much older prints that were improperly stored.
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ABOUT THE PRINT - This is probably a 1970's era print and is in excellent condition with no warpage or V.S. associated with much older prints that were improperly stored.
ABOUT PRICES & SHIPPING - You can do local pick-up by visiting our location via wnymovieexpo.com You can arrange pick-up time before you pay via the check-out system. If you are too far away, save on shipping charges with media mail rate. Don't pay any attention to bay's stupid posting of "delivery in 4 days". I OFFER SHIPPING in one to four days. What the post office does with it is not in my control. Ebay still hasn't figured it out yet! Neither have State governments now that many of you are forced to pay sales tax on top of the shipping charges. I am not able to remove these sales tax charges and you will have to deal with ebay direct to get an exemption. Ebay lies and goes against the very rules they set up in the selling template. The buyer is supposed to pay return shipping if not satisfied with an item. That is in every listing agreement I offer. However, when a deadbeat returns an item by using a return shipping label (which ebay promotes at the sellers' expense), then he or she gets a free ride both ways. As usual, the fix is in against the seller. Since sleezebay decides to side with the bad buyers (remember this clown had zero feedbacks and never even contacted me with an issue to resolve) and charge my account for return shipping, it makes it easy for bad buyers to rent for free whatever they choose. I can't even send a negative feedback warning to my fellow sellers because sleezebay does not believe in the First Amendment. By the way his ebay moniker is hainericwortma0. (feedback score of zero) Well, at least I got the feedback in via this route! As a result, I will be forced to require at least ten (10) feedbacks before I decide to complete a sale. As they say in the western movies, "It's the only wheel in town, friends". It's the only wheel in town, friends!
