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Don Juan (1926) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Don Juan (1926) a score of 3.0000 out of 4

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CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)

A year before The Jazz Singer, there was this, the first movie with a synchronized musical score. John Barrymore is dashing in the title role, the editing is fluid, the sets are marvelous. Most of all, William Axt's score really moves the film up a notch ...read the complete Don Juan movie review at CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)

Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

The first in which music and sound effects were integrated into the film action. ...read the complete Don Juan movie review at Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Historically the movie is important because of its synchronized score by William Axt. The Vitaphone feature film was the first in which music and sound effects were integrated into the film action. The experiment worked and sounded the death knell for ...read the complete Don Juan movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Movie Mirror (Sanderson Beck)

Don Jose (John Barrymore) says goodbye to his wife Donna Isobel (Jane Winton) and his son Juan, but he comes back to find her lover, who is enclosed in a wall. Jose expels his wife and tells Juan he has lost his faith in women. Jose has many ladies. When ...read the complete Don Juan movie review at Movie Mirror (Sanderson Beck)

Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films

John Barrymore's Don Juan is a lover and a fighter. First he humps on about every woman in Rome, and then at the end he single-handedly defeats the foreign legion. Laughing all the way. He's also very adept at jumping up and down off balconies. It has ...read the complete Don Juan movie review at Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films