When a Man Loves

Alan Crosland, Warner Bros., 1927, from Prévost's Manon Lescaut. John Barrymore as Chevalier des Grieux, Dolores Costello as Manon. Vitaphone score, no dialogue. The AFI: a garret week in Paris, her brother selling her, the king, a convict ship, a mutiny, a boat toward America. Infobox 111 minutes. New York 3 February, general 21 August. Bess Meredyth adapted it. The novel kills Manon; Warners put them in a small boat and call it an ending. The third Warner feature with a pre-recorded Vitaphone track.