If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
John Barrymore
as Don Jose de Marana / Don Juan de Marana
Jane Winton
as Donna Isobel
John Roche
as Leandro
Warner Oland
as Cesare Borgia
Estelle Taylor
as Lucrezia Borgia
Montagu Love
as Count Giano Donati
Josef Swickard
as Duke Della Varnese
Willard Louis
as Pedrillo
Nigel De Brulier
as Marchese Rinaldo
Hedda Hopper
as Marchesia Rinaldo
Myrna Loy
as Mai - Lady in Waiting
Mary Astor
as Adriana della Varnese
