Adventures of Don Juan | |
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Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
Produced by | Jerry Wald |
Written by | Herbert Dalmas George Oppenheimer Harry Kurnitz |
Starring |
Errol Flynn Viveca Lindfors |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Cinematography | Elwood Bredell |
Edited by | Alan Crosland, Jr. |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date
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December 1, 1948 |
Running time
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110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English Spanish |
Budget | $3.5 million or $3 million |
Box office | $5 million |
Adventures of Don Juan (released in the UK as The New Adventures of Don Juan) is a 1948 American Technicolor swashbuckling adventure romance film from Warner Bros., produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Vincent Sherman, that stars Errol Flynn and Viveca Lindfors, with Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Ann Rutherford, and Robert Warwick. Also in the cast are Barbara Bates, Raymond Burr, and Mary Stuart. The screenplay by George Oppenheimer and Harry Kurnitz, based on a story by Herbert Dalmas, has uncredited contributions by William Faulkner and Robert Florey.
The film was originally to be scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. However, production of the film was postponed until 1947, by which time Korngold had retired from scoring motion pictures. He was replaced by Max Steiner.
Late in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Spanish noble Don Juan de Maraña (Errol Flynn) is repatriated from London to Madrid, following a diplomatic scandal caused by his dalliance with the British fiancée of a Spanish nobleman. The Spanish ambassador in London, Count de Polan (Robert Warwick), an old family friend, sends a letter of recommendation to Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors) of Spain.