Captain Thunder (Warner Bros.) (1930)

CAPTAIN THUNDER" —A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production 15 sz | REE cAPTAIN THUNDER” LATEST _| CENTURIES AUGMENTED BY MEXICAN | AND GREATEST OF DON JUANS | _NARNATION “CAPTAIN TDD First of Don Juans Created by Spanish Monk More Than Three Centuries Ago Has Been Recreated by Many Since (Here is an interesting Sunday Feature about the Don Juans) ‘Captain Thunder,’’ the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Theatre, details the thrill high-handed adventures of a Hot Tamale Heartbreaker! A stormy lover with lightning technique! production now at the ing and hilarious amours and Mexican Don Juan—which recalls the many artists, novelists, centuries have WARNER BROS. present APTAIN dramatists and musicians, who in the last three created versions of the original Don Juan, though it 1s a qkes tion whether even he, ever existed. So persistent is the symbol of the — — = ia , 1 than any other Don Juan, is that 0 eternal lover that peoples of all . am any RS . Little as yron ihere s ' ‘ ava araaté . -. hie various ’ | jands have greeted him in his various 1+) the original except that he w: incarnations with a sincerity “ ch horn in Seville, is an ardent love } ’ ica } P » may show that the same quality 1s is the road of many dall in each of us, and that w ‘ ‘ ; through sixteens cantos. It 1 each o , and that we glory 1 : : : ~ vas the death of Byron which ended FAY WRAY seeing Don Juan triumphant in lovey story which he had intended to 5 4 and war, just as we W sh we eur ntinue into the French Revolution CHARLES JUDELS selves might be victorious here the hero was to lose his life pom + , g bil 4 ne , ce GLAMOROUS a VICTOR VARCONI The original story of a Don Juar eae i . : : In George Bernard Shaw's “Man } ADVENTURES Be «x was written by a Spanish mont =e as rien Beale See 3 iperman” the Don Jus ‘ ee NATALIE MOORHEAD Gabriel Tellez, who lived between “). Uf the pursuit of woman—@® ° Oo s a . »'* ‘ ‘ ; « of ae the years of 1570 and 1645 ifis sopher betrayed by his own ImAMOROUS ADVENTURER! F secular works were presented to the stincets The great Pushkin wrote = ee RU VA world under the pen name of Tirs :, Stone Guest, & gem among w vee an f | 1 ae" ) Juan literature, his Don Juan x iS J 7. r de Molino. The priest's story was 4 , Ym P ] 4 ¢ } 4 i! ennobled honorer of love, lnaturally pointed in favor of th b > : ; . 1 vit } } = . searcher after the perfect Joy, not a) spiritual life, and the punishments : . », . a rough seeker, but a butterfly, flit that await the wrongdoer. All late < b 2 m r less ting from flower to flower. Tolstoi’s been more or les : Juan is saved from carnality by ind ends his days in a cloister, | @OQOne bad hombre... buta Don Juans have , . ) ’ colored by Molino’s story of Don ' Juan Tenorio of old Seville. The Don Juan in question, 4 Mozart's “Don Giovanni” reveals gentleman whose hates were matched the spirit of the hero in magieal only by the fierceness of his loves harmonies. Someone has described and his lust to kill, stole the fair the musie as “elfon tones and dartGiralda. A fight with her father, ng rhythms as of summer lightning ‘t only | made au lible.’ Don Juan’s freedom good one to know! If you're a woman, he’ll love you. If you're a man, he’ll murder off your ee a \ , ensued in which Don Juan ne enemies... . Any little favor to won, but called heaven to witness: in love and in morality, attracted, a lthat sue fate waited ‘ tempted, at kk laces the hero on ¢ + ’ jthat su 1 fa iwaited all w | l, a ist places € oblige a friend . | gainsayed his word. Years ifter. on) a .transecendant plane. a winter. night, so goes the tal In the early years of the 19th Don Juan was riding home late, Century the character of Don Juan wine enough aboard to set him sing-| ¢h inged materially, and he was usuing, when, as he passed the grave ally presented as the repentant sinees 2 | ls 4 : : yard—what had seemed to be a ner. The most brilliant minds of 2 ee ‘ >}. os ~ <4 4 7 marble statue on the grave of the Franee during this period occupied ‘ 3 father of Giralda, suddenly came to themselves with the Don Juan theme, life, and without more ado—hustled | Among them being Balzae, De the unrepentant Don off to his Mussat, Gautier and Merimee. future abode among the flames of} “Captain Thunder,” Don Juan of hell. ithe Mexican Badlands, has all the Since the day of Tellez, the world| charm, the devil-may-care, the way has been flooded with versions of] with the ladies, the deftness with a the Don Juan legend, Spain, Italy, | six shooter, and not too great a sense Three Column Ad—Style T—Cut or Mat France, England, Russia and Ameri-| of property values when it comes to ings. Thomas Shadwell wrote ajoriginal one by Hal Davitt and Don Juan play called “The Liber-| Pierre Coudere, The sereen adaptatine” which was produced in England|tion is by Gordon Rigby and the in 1676. It was of no literary value| dialogue by William K. Wells. The land was so grossly indecent that|all star east includes Victor Vareconi lthe character of the amorous wan-|as Captain Thunder—Fay Wray, derer was lowered in the public! Charles Judels, Don Alvarado, | mind. Robert Elliott, Natalie Moorehead, Moliere wrote a Don Juan play,| Bert Roach, Frank Campeau, Robert in which the character is subjected| Emmett Keane and John Sainpolis. to brilliant ridicule. Better known! Alan Crosland directed. } IF YOU MAKE YOUR OWN ADS Please use the following proportions ——— Warner Bros. Present “CAPTAIN THUNDER” 100 | “CAPTAIN THUNDER” — TALKING TRAILER Fay Wray Victor Varconi Charles Judels Robert Elliott . 30% The talking trailer which has been Don Alvarado prepared for “Captain Thunder” Natalie Moorehead 2 i i i is a series of sure-fire flashbacks Bert Roach 2070 Frank Campe: peau John Sainpolis 20% tic story of the hot tamale heart Robert Emmett Keane 20% all the fun and fury of the bombas breaker of old Mexico. It will pull "em in. . > ® by 3% Based on the original story by Hal Davitt & Pierre Coudere rt /0 Dialogue by George M. Rosner and William K. Wells 20%, Directed b an Croslane ted by Alan Crosland 10% AT COST AT YOUR EXCHANGE A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Production a re ea having made their several offer-!rustling cattle. The story is an : | a 4 4 4 | ; seoT Ne llbas ABU alan Jat soci aint senate ns 0