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WHEN A MAN LOVES / DIE ABENTEUER EINER SCHÖNEN KURTISANE
Alan Crosland. USA 1927 - Silent, b/w
Romantic costume drama
Release Date: 3 Feb 1927 (New York Premiere)
Production Company: Warner Brothers Pictures
Adaptation: Bess Meredyth
Based on: Abbé Prévost, Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
Cameraman: Byron Haskins
Assistant Cameraman: Frank Kesson
Editor in Ch: Harold McCord
Cast:
John Barrymore (Chevalier des Grieux)
Dolores Costello (Manon Lescaut)
Warner Oland (André Lescaut)
Sam De Grasse (Comte Guillot de Morfontaine)
Holmes Herbert (Jean Tiberge)
Stuart Holmes (Louis XV, King of France)
Bertram Grassby (Le Duc de Richelieu)
Tom Santschi (captain of the convict boat)
Marcelle Corday (Marie)
Charles Clary (a lay brother)
Templar Saxe ( Baron Chevral)
Eugenie Besserer (The Landlady)
Rose Dione (Nana)
Noble Johnson (an apache)
Tom Wilson (a convict aboard the boat)
Notice:
Chevalier Fabien des Grieux, who has forsworn the world for the church, falls passionately in love with young Manon Lescaut when he encounters her en route to a convent with her brother, André. The lustful Comte Guillot de Morfontaine offers André a tempting sum for Manon, and learning of their bargain, Fabien takes her to Paris, where they spend an idyllic week in a garret. André finds her, persuades her to leave Fabien, and tries to force her into an alliance with Morfontaine - then rescues Manon from the advances of a brutal apache. Fabien, crushed to believe that Manon has become Morfontaine's mistress, is about to take his vows but is deterred by her love for him. King Louis sees Manon in Richelieu's drawing room and wins her. The rejected Morfontaine orders her arrest and deportation, but he is killed by Fabien, who joins Manon on a convict ship bound for America. After inciting the convicts to mutiny, he escapes with her in a small boat.
(Source: The American Film Institute Catalog, Vol. F 2, 1971)
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