Don Juan (1926): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1926, Don Juan is an adventure and romance film directed by Alan Crosland, running about 112 minutes. “A Super Spectacle Depicting the Romantic Adventures of THE LORD OF ALL LOVERS!” — that tagline sets the tone.

What it’s about. If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.

Who’s in it. Don Juan stars John Barrymore as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana, Jane Winton as Donna Isobel, John Roche as Leandro and Warner Oland as Cesare Borgia, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.5/10, Don Juan has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can rent or buy it from Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Don Juan page.

If you liked it. Fans of Don Juan tend to enjoy The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Inception, Interstellar and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.