The Private Life of Don Juan Page #2

Synopsis: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan. When a jealous husband kills him, the real Don Juan sees a way to avoid jail and get some peace. He hides as Captain Mariano in a small town. After six months, he's ready to return to society: can he measure up to the legend, will women find him attractive, and what about Doña Dolores?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Alexander Korda
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
UNRATED
Year:
1934
89 min
25 Views


- She loves you.

Loves me? Buying my debts?

Putting me in jail?

- You've only got to go back to her.

- Listen, I like jails.

I've always wanted to go to jail.

I insist on going to jail.

She can keep you there

for two years.

Oh, my love is going to jail

I'm putting my love to jail

Tomorrow morning

my love will be in jail

I don't understand you, my sweet.

What's the use of him if you put him in jail?

Do you remember

when you were in love?

If I think very hard, my sweet.

Well, think very hard.

Was he unfaithful?

Oh, I don't have to think hard.

Every man is unfaithful.

And when he was unfaithful,

did you want to lock him up?

Lock him up? [ Gasps ]

Chains on his hands and feet and neck.

You are right, my sweet.

You're wrong there, Conchita, because if you

put chains on his hands and his legs and neck...

he wouldn't be able

to embrace you.

Are you going to see him

in jail then?

Twice every day.

I've been appointed

the visiting governor.

He'll see no other woman but me.

How clever you were

to buy up all his debt.

[ Giggling ]

- Master?

- Hmm?

- Is it true you're really going to jail?

- Mmm.

- Why don't you go and see the lady?

- 'Cause I hate her.

During the year I was with her

she nagged me, watched me like a cat...

and accused me of being unfaithful.

- Were you?

- Yes, but she only guessed.

- Master.

- Mmm?

Aren't ladies pretty well all alike to you?

What have you got against this lady?

I adore women.

I never was able to resist women.

But this is the one woman in the world that

I'm determined to resist with my last breath.

- Why?

- That's my secret, Pedro.

Doa Dolores,

how did you discover we were here?

How can I help discovering it when Don Juan

has climbed every balcony in Seville?

Don Juan has not left the house

since we arrived yesterday evening.

[ Laughs ] I know women

whose balconies he's climbed.

I swear to you,

Don Juan has not left the house.

You swear as easily as Don Juan,

Leporello.

Doa Dolores, do you really

want to send him to jail?

Well, what else can I do when I'm in love with him

and he climbs every balcony in Seville?

- Can't that be forgiven?

- You know it can't.

He's only got to come

and ask me for the bills.

Is it so difficult for him

to come and see me?

He shall come and see you.

- Don't you believe it?

- No.

Do you think

he dislikes you so much?

I think he's afraid

he may like me too much.

But still, if he comes,

the bills will go into the fire.

You're very generous, Doa Dolores.

Thank you.

You don't think, um, an accident

might happen to Don Juan?

- No. I'll take good care of him.

- Well, you take very good care of him.

Balcony climbing

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Henry Bataille

Félix-Henri Bataille (4 April 1872 in Nîmes – 2 March 1922 in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian to study painting, but started writing when he was 14. Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse, he became a playwright exclusively. Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be. For example, Maman Colibri, is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man. Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theater of ideas and social drama. Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation. While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence". more…

All Henry Bataille scripts | Henry Bataille Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "The Private Life of Don Juan" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 Apr. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/the_private_life_of_don_juan_21114>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    The Private Life of Don Juan

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.