The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
1934 · Feature film · 87 min · dir. Alexander Korda
Swordsman! Robinhood! Rogue!
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Alexander Korda
- Writer
- Frederick Lonsdale
- Composer
- Ernst Toch
- Cinematography
- Georges Périnal
- Studio
- London Films Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 1934-02-01
- Running time
- 87 minutes
Cast & crew
Alexander Korda Director
Heather Thatcher
Athene Seyler
Edmund Breon
Barry MacKay
Benita Hume
Binnie Barnes
Melville Cooper
Gibson Gowland
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Nice Parody · Big Boomer · 2017-07-23
Douglas Fairbanks' last screen role is a broad parody of himself as a swashbuckling lover who has entered middle age and must come to grips with reality. "Every woman wants more than a husband. She wants Don Juan. But she wants him all to herself!" Fairbanks was in his mid-fifties when he made this film and only survived five years after its release. Very nice performance by the English/Indian actor, Merle Oberon who briefly plays Don Juan's juvenile love interest, Antonita. One odd observation is that except for Fairbanks every other actor who does not wear a hat has a long snood. Maybe that…
