What do women want? Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a twenty-year absence. His wife Dolores (Benita Hume), with whom he hasn't lived in five ...
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Title: The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
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What do women want? Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a twenty-year absence. His wife Dolores (Benita Hume), with whom he hasn't lived 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. When a jealous husband kills him, the real Don Juan sees a way to avoid jail and get some peace. He hides as Captain Mariano in a small town. After six months, he's ready to return to society. Can he measure up to the legend, will women find him attractive, and what about Dona Dolores? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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gold earring | middle age | mistaken identity | impersonation | seville spain |Taglines:
SWIFT ACTION...DARING DEEDS! Back with all the zip and zest of "Zorro".."Thief of Bagdad".."Robin Hood"! Doug back at his best! (Print Ad- Spartanburg Herald, ((Spartanburg SC)) 30 January 1935)Parents Guide:
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(1861) (uncredited)
Written by Sebastián Yradier
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Televised as early as June 27, 1948 on WTMJ (Channel 3) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See more »Crazy Credits
Lengthy, humorous and accurate role descriptions are listed for each character in the opening credits. See more »Soundtracks
La Paloma(1861) (uncredited)
Written by Sebastián Yradier
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Returning old and in debt to Seville, the scene of his youthful triumphs, Douglas Fairbanks Snr as the Don finds a young impostor climbing less adroitly up balconies to get at the city's wives. When the inept lad is run through by a husband, Don Juan enjoys attending his own funeral but is persuaded by Melville Cooper, his sardonic sidekick Leporello, to disappear under an alias to Portugal.
Bored and unsuccessful with women there, he leaves when the even-older owner of the inn, Athene Seyler, proposes. Back in Seville, nobody believes that this strange elderly man is the dead Don Juan and he is universally taken for another impostor, even by old flames.
Among the host of lovely women it is invidious to pick out Merle Oberon as a gloriously seductive dancer Antonita, Benita Hume as his abandoned but still faithful wife Doña Dolores and Binnie Barnes as a gawky barmaid Rosita.
The whole film is tongue-in-cheek, with nobody taking themselves seriously and all acting with Latin extravagance. Picturesque costumes are about 1805, based on Goya's paintings, and there are some ambitious sets. Fine soundtrack throughout, with an opening serenade "Senorita Carmencita" and a running motif of "La Paloma". Good entertainment!