THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN
(Warner Broé8.) OLLYWOOD’S Don Juan not only provides us with a pleasant and amusing variation on the standard formula for costume pieces (after all, why fall back on a hussy every time?), it (continued on next page)
offers also a new interpretation of the Great Lover himself, as a man born before his time. The Don (Errol Flynn, no less) has apparently two enthusiasms, and one of them is democracy. Sent back to Spain in disgrace for a peccadillo he didn’t get a chance to commit, he becomes the personal champion of the Queen against the Duke de Lorca, a double-dyed villain (his hair is doubledyed anyway) who is planning a fascist coup d’etat. Chivvied around the palace corridors by bands of 16th Century falangists, Don Juan gradually mows down the opposition (assisted at times by his: pupils in the royal fencing academy) until, the last enemy, the black Dook himself, is suitably skewered at the foot of the grand staircase before the eyes of the admiring Court. A field-day for extroverts, and quite a bit of good, clean fun for others.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 16
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187THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 16
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