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When a Man Loves is a american film of genre Historical directed by Alan Crosland released in USA on 21 august 1927 with John Barrymore

When a Man Loves (1927)

When a Man Loves
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Released in USA 21 august 1927
Length 1h51
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Historical,    Romance
Rating69% 3.4824453.4824453.4824453.4824453.482445

When a Man Loves is a 1927 American silent historical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros.. The picture stars John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in the oft filmed story of Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut.

The film was the third feature from Warners to have a pre-recorded Vitaphone soundtrack. Many of the same people who worked on the previous year's Don Juan worked on this picture (i.e. Alan Crosland, Bess Meredyth, Harold McCord, Byron Haskin).

The UK release title of this film was His Lady.

Synopsis

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.

Actors

John Barrymore

(Chevalier Fabien des Grieux)Dolores Costello

(Manon Lescaut)Warner Oland

(André Lescaut)Sam De Grasse

(Comte Guillot de Morfontaine)Holmes Herbert

(Jean Tiberge)
And :
Stuart Holmes
Bertram Grassby
Tom Santschi
Eugenie Besserer
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