Adventure in Iraq (Warner Bros.) (1943)

Make Up Your Own Thrill Herald... Scare headlines printed on colored news stock and distributed on the streets as an "Extra" will attract considerable attention to your playdate. Copy is suggested at right. You might also wish to add scene cut and caption to your layout. For lobby display, enlarge the type layout to a 40" x 60" display. 3-SHEET FOR EXCITING TRAILER LOBBY DISPLAY The colorful 3-sheet (see back page) features two framed stills. We suggest you mount the poster on a shadow box, cut out the photograph at the top of the poster and place a screen in its place. With portable equipment it will BE possible to project the trailer on this screen, giving you an all-day plug for your picture out front. Another colorful way to adapt this poster to an animated lobby display is to make transparencies of the ~two framed photographs, with lights behind each photo going on and off alternately. TIE TITLE TO THE NEWS Build a large bulletin board in lobby bannered "Adventure in Iraq" and spot it with action stills from your Vitagraph Exchange set. As a montage background get newspaper clippings from your local newspaper morgue telling about Allied war activities in Iraq and the Near East. If any news stories from this area break on or near your playdate, be sure to give these stories display. MYSTERY OVER THE DESERT! Adventure... IN THE TROUBLE SPOT OF THE NEAR EAST! Adventure, , . IN THE SHEIK’S HAREM! ‘ADVENTURE IN IRAQ’ STRAND THEATRE! NOW! EXPLOITATION ESSAY CONTEST: ‘Adventure in Iraq" suggests a contest for your matinee attendance on the subject, "My Most Exciting Adventure." Suggest to the English Department of your local school that they sponsor this composition contest, with war bonds and guest tickets as prizes. STREET BALLY: Dress your usher in the garb of an Iraq chieftain astride a white horse and have him ride through main streets with banners on each side of the saddle. Banners read: ''There's Mystery in the Desert . . . Adventure in Irag.'' Add playdate credits. Another version would be to have a man dressed as an aviator riding the horse with a girl dressed in the garb of ancient Iraq, as portrayed in the stills. LOBBY STUNT: Against the background of a map of the Near East with Iraq prominently colored and titled, hang a "bomb" from a cut-out plane with an alarm clock hidden in the fuselage. Announce that the clock alarm will ring within the next 12 hours. War bond purchasers are given a chance to guess the time, with a war bond awarded to the nearest guesser. Copy: "Excitement by the bombload... in “Adventure in Iraq'." SOLDIERS’ LETTERS: Many American troops are stationed in Iraq. Perhaps there are some from your town in this Allied outpost. Arrange to get the names, photographs and letters, if available, of these boys and give them prominent display in your lobby as those who find "Adventure in Iraq'’ . . . fighting for us a long way from home. If possible, arrange to publish their letters in newspaper. 990000000040646460400000000000000000046000bbDDDDDDAADAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAA DDI NN IIIT T OOOO TOTO CT CAST George lonnencel; 1 meter as John Loder Ess sNOrnencer ue cities yor uae areas Ruth Ford Dougikverette.. tiie as Warren Douglas Sheik Ahmid Bel Nor... Paul Cavanagh DS VINS 5c ieee eae atte ee teltge a. Barry Bernard Tirta a, eases ero one eee ee Je Peggy Carson GapreBilliGarsonien eter at. ce ay Bill Crago Highs Pulests 2 dee eerie ete Martin Garralaga RadiolOperatonce waiaheeen Bill Edwards PatrolingsGuard ix. ao. wees bana Dick Botiller Native: Officer 2. 4.cay ese Eugene Borden APIS pene as ha be nO nah ni Coe Manuel Lopez PRODUCTION Directed by D. Ross Lederman; Screen Play by George R. Bilson and Robert E. Kent; From a Play by William Archer; Director of Photography, James Van Trees, A.S.C.; Film Editor, Clarence Kolster; Art Director, Stanley Fleischer; Sound by Francis J. Scheid; Dialogue Director, Jack Lucas; Set Decorations by Walter F. Tilford; Gowns by Milo Anderson; Makeup Artist, Perc Westmore; Asst. Director, Wilbur McGaugh. SYNOPSIS A forced landing in the Iraq desert places Doug Everett (Warren Douglas), Tess Torence (Ruth Ford) and her husband (John Loder) in the hands of the unscrupulous Nazi hireling, Sheik Ahmid Bel Nor (Paul Cavanagh). Although the Sheik is urbane in his treatment of them, there is a sinister note underlying his suavity. He explains that three of his brothers, serving as Nazi spies, have been arrested by the English and are slated for execution. His savage subjects, he continues, are determined that the three captives shall be slain in revenge. The Sheik, enamored with Tess, is willing to save her from execution and that gives her the opportunity to humor him so that the two men can find a means of escape. At night all three escape but are later apprehended. George is shot and Tess and Doug are brought . _ back to be executed. The tortures are just about. >. to begin when a squadron of bombing planes arsae rives and the captives are rescued. 7 (Running Time: 64 minutes.) BILLING WARNER BROS. W: Pictures, Inc. Presents By 4a ADVENTURE IN IRAQ”. with 4 JOHN RUTH WARREN a LODER — FORD — DQUGLAS 70% PAUL PEGGY CAVANAGH — CARSON ve * * * Directed by D. Ross Lederman 15% * * i ak ’ = Screen Play by George R. Bilson © Robert E. Kent ; 3%, From a Play by William Archer may & * * * eS) A Warner Bros.-First National Picture Bee