In the prologue, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle; abandoned to his lust, he is stabbed by his last mistress, and with his dying words he implores

• John Barrymore as Don Jose de Marana/Don Juan de Marana
• Jane Winton as Donna Isobel
• John Roche as Leandro

The film was a box-office success being Warners' biggest grossing film to date with earnings of $1,693,000 despite negative reviews from New York

A print of Don Juan, including its Vitaphone soundtrack, still survives and is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Lou Tellegen, an early film matinee idol, had starred in a Broadway production based on the Don Juan legend in 1921. This play ran only 14 performances at the Garrick Theatre. The soundtrack for the film was performed by the New York Philharmonic

On August 24, two weeks after the premier, The New York Times reported that ASCAP was pursuing claims of copyright infringement on

In 2011, the film, along with the original Vitaphone sound shorts, was released on manufactured-on-demand DVD by the Warner Archive Collection