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Warner Bros., 1926. John Barrymore plays the Byronic lover who, taught by a murdered father to take everything from women and yield nothing, cuts a swath through Borgia Rome until he falls for Adriana della Varnese. Alan Crosland directed. The first feature released with a Vitaphone score and sound effects, and no spoken dialogue: the orchestra is on the disc, the actors are still silent, and the sword fights are cut to it. Mary Astor is Adriana; Estelle Taylor is Lucrezia Borgia.
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The first Vitaphone feature: a synchronized score and sound effects, no spoken word. Barrymore cuts through Borgia Rome, and the orchestra follows him into every room. The Jazz Singer came a year later and got the credit. This is the machine before the talk.
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