Talk:Adventures of Don Juan

Plot is a verbatim steal

The plot section is a verbatim steal from http://www.mvlib.com/details/movie/adventures-of-don-juan-267964.html. It even included the misspelling of "Margaret" until I inadvertantly corrected it.

Even though the source is cited, it should not be copied verbatim. This is called plagiarism.

It so happens that the plot description at mvlib.com was in fact taken from an IMDB plot summary at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040076/plotsummary, which also includes the misspelling of "Margaret". Again, it is a verbatim copy.

The section needs to be rewritten. 71.200.138.188 (talk) 12:55, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

"Adventures of Don Juan represents Flynn's farewell to swashbuckling.[2]"

Flynn actually starred in a few swashbucklers after completing the Adventures of Don Juan in 1948. Namely Against All Flags in 1952, The Master of Ballantrae in 1953, and Crossed Swords in 1954. He also appeared in The Dark Avenger in 1955 and in an episode of the Screen Director's playhouse called The Sword of Villon in 1956

Dirk2112 (talk) 21:19, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

a matter of dates

In the years before the Spanish Armada of the sixteenth Century, ...

Opening narration says it's the beginning of the Seventeenth century. In the first scene with the king of Spain, it's mentioned that the previous invincible armada (1588) was sunk by the English. —Tamfang (talk) 06:37, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Music taken from The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Most of the music in this film, including the dominant theme, is taken directly from Slfred Newman’s Academy Award nominated score for The Mark of Zorro (1940), starring Tyrone Power. This is not subtle. Just play the opening of the earlier film on YouTube, or better yet, watch a proper copy online. I discovered this tonight (November 2019) watching Don Juan on TCM.

I have been wondering how Steiner got away with it, although Newman was famous for his collegiality, and may have said sure, why not. In 1948, TV had not yet invaded the nation’s living rooms. WOR’s “Million Dollar Movie” (1955-1966) and similar programs were years away, much less cable TV and AMC and TCM and home video. The chances anyone would notice were slim, and if someone did, who would they have told? I was more surprised to find modern comments on Steiner’s score online from people whom I would expect to know both films.

IMDB says that the score for Zorro the Gay Blade is an adaptation of Steiner’s score for Don Juan. Since Gay Blade was conceived as a silly sequel to the 1940 film, it seems much more likely that that was the inspiration for the music. Perhaps the ever-dreaded issue of rights played into this. Perhaps they were only able to get permission from the borrowers instead of the originators or their “ heirs and assigns”. It may have been a rights loophole that made Steiner’s “borrowing’ possible, Inquiring minds want to know. Merry medievalist (talk) 10:28, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

I apologize. This was an error based on a stack of soundtrack recordings that were mislabeled. Merry medievalist (talk) 14:34, 20 November 2019 (UTC)