A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Tom Amandares
- Convict on Convict Ship
- (uncredited)
Alice Belcher
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Eugenie Besserer
- Landlady
- (uncredited)
Charles Clary
- Lay Brother
- (uncredited)
Marcelle Corday
- Marie
- (uncredited)
Rose Dione
- Nana
- (uncredited)
Louise Emmons
- Smiling Hag
- (uncredited)
Noble Johnson
- Aggressive Apache
- (uncredited)
Jack Kenny
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Bess Meredyth
- Abbé Prévost(uncredited)
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- TriviaAfter "The End" appears on the screen, the entire Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra and its conductor (Herman Heller) appears on the screen, partly in closeup, for about 15 seconds. The New York Times reviewer of 4 February 1927 noted that the Vitaphone synchronization process was so good that he, and probably most of the audience, had forgotten that there was no orchestra in the pit. When the orchestra and conductor were shown onscreen, the surprised audience loudly cheered.
- GoofsRichelieu is depicted as an effeminate homosexual. In fact, Richelieu was so notorious a ladies' man, Choderlos de Laclos based the character of Valmont in "Les liaisons dangereuses" on him.
- Quotes
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux: Pull - pull - you sons of diseased camels!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Voyagers!: Destiny's Choice (1983)
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Was Another Vitaphone Triumph For Warner Brothers
I must admit I've only seen one clip, of this rumored to be picturesque silent, on an old HBO documentary on the 1920s. That was in the early 1980s. This film treatment on the much filmed Manon Lescaut romance story is known to exist. It is not a lost film yet it is almost never seen even though it would presumably be owned by Turner Classics being a Warner Bros. silent. This was the film in which Ethel Barrymore upon seeing commented that her brother John Barrymore basically threw his part away in order for Dolores Costello, then Barrymore's girlfriend and soon to be wife, to standout and shine. Costello was then concurrently starring in Warner's "Old San Francisco"(1927), which had a Vitaphone pre-recorded soundtrack. WAML was John Barrymore's third and final film in a three picture deal with Warner Brothers and it followed the better know Don Juan. WAML had a Vitaphone pre-recorded soundtrack with musical score & sound effects, the same as Don Juan. Vitaphone was the pioneer system where the music, sound effects, speech etc. was recorded on an LP type of wax disc rather than the later standard of film. Byron Haskin, WAML's Cinematographer, said in an interview that this was a wonderful story to photograph and was superior to Don Juan photographically in many respects IHHO. Incidentally director Alan Crosland seemed to be involved with all things Vitaphone & Warner Brothers at this time. He was not only the director of WAML but the aforementioned Old San Francisco & Don Juan as well as the talking film breakthrough The Jazz Singer. Maybe one day Turner Classics will surprise everyone and resurrect WAML, a late silent/major studio obscurity. Perhaps some kind of restoration is in order and that includes the original pre-recorded soundtrack if it exists. I'm sure it's as gorgeous as Don Juan's soundtrack.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $885,699
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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