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Director:
Alan Crosland
Writer:
Bess Meredyth (adaptation)
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Release Date:
21 August 1927 (USA) more
Genre:
Romance more
Plot:
Fabien des Grieux, a divinity student, comes to the rescue of a beautiful girl, Manon Lescaut, when... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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
Stuart Holmes ... Louis XV - King of France
Bertram Grassby ... Le Duc de Richelieu
Tom Santschi ... Captain of Convict Boat
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
His Lady (UK)
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Runtime:
USA:111 min (TCM print) (2006 restoration)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Vitaphone) (musical score and sound effects)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)

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A print of this film and soundtrack for it survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives. more
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Version of Manon Lescaut (1997) (TV) more

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Historic, 28 February 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

When a Man Loves (1927)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Silent melodrama about a man (John Barrymore) studying for the priesthood when he falls in love with a woman (Dolores Costello) whose brother (Warner Oland) has sold her for prostitution. This film is beautiful on the eye but the story is pretty lacking, which makes it rather difficult to sit through the 110-minute running time. The costume design and sets all look extremely well especially a torture dungeon used on a ship towards the end of the movie. Both Barrymore and Costello, who would be married the following year, are very good in their roles but Oland comes off rather bland. Myrna Loy has a cameo but I wasn't able to spot her. The screenplay is all over the place but as I said earlier the story never gets too thrilling or dramatic so it left me rather cold. This is another early Vitaphone film and the movie was released two weeks before The Jazz Singer. There isn't any spoken dialogue but there's several sound effects, which are pretty silly especially some of the effects used during a thunderstorm.

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