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Bess Meredyth (adaptation)
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Release Date:
21 August 1927 (USA) more
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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
(Complete credited cast) | 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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Also Known As:
His Lady (UK)
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USA:111 min (TCM print) (2006 restoration)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Vitaphone) (musical score and sound effects)
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)
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This film was restored jointly by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (which had a copy of the print and soundtrack) and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (which provided some picture elements). It was shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel in 2006 and has a running time of 111 minutes plus another minute for restoration credits. more
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Version of Manon Lescaut (1980) (TV) more
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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.