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McLaglen saw active fighting on many fronts during the late war — his principal exploits occurring in Mesopotamia and India
Big VIC a Soldier of
FORTUNE
ONE thing about the kleigs : they tell the story of a personality as no other medium can. In the feature films of recent vintage "characters" have been holding a side-show of their own ; scowling "heavies," homely purveyors of atmosphere, have virtually been outbidding their sweeter-looking colleagues in public interest.
Remember Ernest Torrence in "The Covered Wagon," Karl Dane in "The Big Parade," Jean Hersholt in "Stella Dallas" — all "characters," playing minor parts ; deeply lined, ugly, warted faces, gum-chewing, tobacco-spitting, hard-swearing, sweaty males. They are no longer held down to minor roles, so great has been their appeal.
What is it?
My guess is that these expressive and scarred countenances tell the story of a life at a glance. They are not adolescents trembling at the threshold of experience. These ruggedly hewn and chiseled physiognomies are so revealing that we can read the record of their sufferings, joys, misadventures and transgressions only too plainly and draw up the balance. When their faces in a close-up are spread over some 320 square feet of screen, an entirely new kind of game is provided for devotees of the cinema.
A Man of Many Parts
Mow there is another face whose deep shadows will loom big in the close-ups of a film — that of Victor McLaglen, playing Captain Flagg in Laurence Stallings' war play, "What Price Glory."
It is not an awfully pleasant face ; confined hitherto in "heavy" roles, of old-fashioned Fox pictures, it has often given us the thrill of veritable wickedness. By the most rigorous possible screen tests it has finally been pronounced to be charged with "character" and ^ so McLaglen has been handed over the most colorful role of Stallings'
picturesque play. The difficult Stallings declared himself highly pleased with the choice.
Captain McLaglen brought down
big game as well as the enemy
during his sojourn in India
No country was forgotten by
McLaglen. Here he is on an
East African estate
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