![]() ![]() The Adventures of Don Juan was given a sumptuous production and won an Oscar for Costume Design and was nominated for Art&Set Design. The real Queen Margaret who was his Hapsburg cousin did in fact have considerable influence over domestic and foreign policy in Spain. Although Philip III was not the great ruler his father Philip II was, by no means was he as big a fool as Romney Brent plays him. And the great lover starts behaving more like Sir Lancelot and less like Don Juan where Queen Margaret as played by Viveca Lindfors is concerned. The first minister Robert Douglas is planning a move against the Queen who he sees as his main obstacle for total power in the kingdom. ![]() He's up to his neck in trouble soon enough, but not the kind of trouble Flynn's usually in. King Philip III and Queen Margaret give our hero a chance to redeem himself by teaching at the royal fencing academy. The Adventures Of Don Juan finds Tirso De Molina's famous lover sent home after a couple of escapades in the newly formed Kingdom of Great Britain. Like Fairbanks, Flynn plays an older and wiser famous lover who's getting a bit bored by it all. Like his swashbuckling predecessor Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn tackled the part of Don Juan in his late years, he was 39 when he made this film for Warner Brothers.
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