The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN  (1934)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Alexander Korda
    Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes,
    Benita Hume, Melville Cooper, Joan Gardner
Douglas Fairbanks closed out his career playing the legendary lover, who finds himself in middle age competing against his own outsized reputation. Fairbanks looks agile enough, but the physical action is limited compared with his work in silent films and the movie never really comes to life. The pacing is ponderous and the comic bits land with a clunk. Fairbanks died five years later of a heart attack. He was 56.