Captured! (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Every Nation in World War'| Represented in *‘Captured ”’ Warner Bros. Used Real Veterans For German Prison Camp Scenes in Leslie Howard Hit “WN VERY nation in the world that contributed soldiers to the armies of the Allies in the war of 1914-18 are represented among the 100 or more rain-soaked, mud-spattered prisoners and guards who comprise the population of the bleak German prison camp, in which the scenes are laid for the Warner Bros. | stupendous photoplay ‘‘ Captured 1’? which comes to the Theatre on _ Ineidentally, it is a proof of the cosmopolitan character of Hollywood’s motion picture residents that ex-soldiers of each nation on the Allied side of the war ~ responded to the call from the War ner casting office in greater numbers than could be used. Everyone of the prison camp guards is a bona fide German. Abili ty to speak German was one of the qualifications that Director Roy Del wise fitted for his role by his German descent and background. Leslie Howard at Home ing role of the English Officer Allison, is as completely an Englishman GERMAN OFFICER | PAUL LUKAS, likeable star, plays ADVANCE FEATURES Doug. Jr. Has Trained For Sereen Since His Boyhood son of the firm’s head, when he is ready to go to work, should I put on overalls and learn Dad’s business from the bottom up to the top. It really happens, even if in many cases, the journey is a routine affair compressed into a few months or a couple of years, before Junior arrives at a mahogany desk in an office adjoining Senior’s. Measured by such a standard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., should have a better and more diversified background, based upon firsthand experience, than any player of stellar magnitude in motion pictures. As a matter of fact, that is just what Doug. has. This rising young actor, who is rounding out another successful year in his career by playing one of the principal roles in Warner Bros.’ production, ‘‘Captured!’’ which opens at the THeEAtRG= OMe he ee 5 is at home in many branches of the business where his fellow-players would be quite at sea. The son of a star—though at his T’S tradition, in many lines of American business, that the While pictures were still silent, he practiced the now obsolete art of writing titles. He titled two of the elder Doug’s successes, ‘‘The Black Pirate’? and ‘‘The Gaucho.’’ His pen and brush were both busy in the allied arts of writing and painting. And between engagements in pictures — which were still spasmodic and ir regular—he demonstrated his ability as an actor in numerous stage plays. Doug’s concentration upon master =, insisted ates at the Sree as the officer he is called upon to the role of cone of ee camee birth his father’s motion picture ins the technique > ‘ — aroused of the actors to appear as camp play. He had attained an enviable | Prison camp in aptured,” which | ..,cer was still in the unguessed in him a new ambition—to ecome a guards. reputation in tua. matte eaten will be — See pe ee atl pe tur e—young Doug. began breathing playwrite. Especially a screen playEo ; ee : : thes eee Sees : i is : 7 Since an unusual amount of the| stage before coming to America, 15 the atmosphere of a motion picture write, though he is at home equall; dialogue spoken by various important actors in the story is in German— ‘this being especially true in the case of the officers in charge of the camp —~it was necessary to choose artists years ago, and rising rapidly, during the few following years, to the position of Broadway’s most popular leading man. His success in motion pictures has been as brilliant as his Cut No. 16 There is only one outstanding exception to the otherwise prevailing Cut 15¢ Mat 5c in the studio and the theatre. “Already he has one story to his credit — ‘‘Searlet Dawn’’— and he confesses that he would probably have brought several others to com studio as a boy. And a very young boy at that. Now and then, around the studio, the simple, direct-thinking child’s mind would suggest something that rule followed in casting ‘‘ Captured! ’’ Douglas Fairbanks, who spoke German fluently. earlier triumphs on the stage. Three of the best-known and ablest actors of Hollywood’s foreign colony fitted perfectly into three of the im Among the lesser parts and ‘‘ bits’’ in the cast of the picture, such names as Bleiter, Harry Cording, Hol-| story, and in love with the same girl. Doug. was duly rewarded with a laender and Erlhoff are indications of the care with which even the minor roles in ‘‘Captured!’’ have been cast. Real Erenchmen wear the grayblue uniform of the poilu prisoners in the muddy stockade. Authentic Australians with their jaunty hats that look strangely unwarlike play the parts of the ‘‘ Aussie’’ prisoners. Genuine Cockneys were selected for the ‘‘Tommies’’ who help to make _the motley p of prisone! the throng, played by. loyal devotees. of Mussolini. The American prisoners of war, needless to say, are native actors. And real Russians are cast for the Museovite captives of the Kaiser’s war machine. E portant roles, Paul Lukas, who has the important J Commandant Ehrlich, though 3 unga h, speaks German as fluently as he does his native tongue. Frank Reicher, as the ad. jutant of the prison camp, was born Germany and is a son of the celefed Emanuel Reicher, whose fame a@actor was equally great on both seies of the Atlantic. 1 Mr. Reicher his early to are laid is a dis One 0] Bite ” Nd im is own right, having been identified with the American theatre for More than 25 years. Robert Barrat, as the camp commandant who is killed Leslie Howard, who has the lead‘during the prisoners’ mutiny, is like work of east Executives’ Lunch Stolen _ For Scene in “‘Captured”’ Yet even congruous as it might first appear. check. He got more kick out of those first rewards that the early silent pictures dropped in his lap than from this exception is not in Jr., though an | more sophisticated adults had enpletion if it were not for sage dele American, plays the British role of tirely overlooked. Whenever such wheluing. street 3 cae = ie Digby, schoolmate of Allison in the | ¥ssestions. were aecepted, “young that makes even his favorite pursuits a drudgery. Warner Bros. bought and produced ‘<Searlet Dawn’’*with Douglas as its hero and Nancy Carroll as the little Young Doug. spent so many years of school France, that he plays the role of an Eton and Oxford man as easily as though an English born subject. ‘¢Captured!’’ a thrilling dramatic picture, most of the scenes of which is_ based ‘and novelist. Other important members of the include Phillip Faversham, and Arthur chef was horrified at the mere idea | of appropriating his pet roast for a picture. Russian heroine. Those who know Doug. best, however, insist that his laziness is happi ly offset by equally marked spurts of energy and activity. They confidently expect him to complete more than one of his half-finished stories during any money he has earned since. The requirements of education carried him far afield from Hollywood for several years—New York, London and then Paris. To the usual ingredients of a school curriculum he added painting and seulpture while he was abroad. Being a Fairbanks, acting was indicated as his natural metier when life abroad, where he went both in England and such periods and make an equally brilliant name for himself as actor and author. : “3 in a German prison camp, on a novel by Sir Philip |-known war correspondent ‘The sereen play is the |. Edward Chodoroy. Margaret Lindsay, | Reginald Pasch Hohl. | =} it Was Treason =| Sos ee oY It was treason! It was sacrilege! ee * e e e e Movie Officials Now Have Fair Idea of What Gen. | i was simply impossible and -unSherman Meant by His Famous Remark eee Nothing daunted, the production = staff pointed out to him the necessity & ‘9 the heyday of the theatre, the slogan was, ‘‘the show must] ° the moment—the necessity that a go on.’’ In the modern motion picture studio—especially in oe. oe ee oe these days of fast production schedules—the rule is, ‘‘the picese peeeeree eee eee ee: oo on.” hours’ delay in the making of a 8 Det : picture—delay that would cost hunSo inexorable is the rule that even production executives | dreds of dollars. have to stand aside and sacrifice themselves. Production has the 1-44 while the kitehen tyrant right of way and the needs of a picture are at all times para-| raged and fumed and called down = mount. _ every imaginable curse upon the That particular rule cost the War-/ to a sumptuous meal in the comheads of the vandals, the executive ner a ence pra e the| mandant’s headquarters. roast beef was carried off to make “e . = . 7 u s piece de resistance” of their noon: : ; ; : : ; day meal one day during the making | For the repast, a suckling pig had|a@ German holiday. And the dinner of “Captured!” been ordered cooked in the kitchen| of the Teuton commandant was | feet | the big drama of the commissary, as an appropriate photographed and recorded accordi eta: Garnian meal for the commander of the prising to schedule. | war prison ob camp, who was supposed to be i S camps, which a gourmet, ‘ = n hour later the Warner execuopens at the . Came eleven o’elock. The property | tives heard the fate of their roast — . SS ieee Thea-| man hurried over to the kitchen to] beef with equanimity, laughed about a Bae pe aoe oe asa how as suckling pig was getting | it and proceeded to dine philosophiDOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. e dish in| along. 4 moment later he appeared cally on frankfurters and sauerkraut Cut No.11 Cut 30e Mat 10¢ question was a|in consternation. Something had : i : ; ; : ‘ delicious joint; gone wrong somewhere along the as a substitute, but not until Jack | he returned to Hollywood. The illusIn ‘‘Captured!’’ which was di of roast beef,| line. The pig hadn’t arrived from Warner had remarked, “Sherman was | trious name he bore might have| rected by Roy Del Ruth, and which cooked to order| the butcher, — right about war.” strewn his path with roses, or opened ; Warner Bros. regard as one of their for studio offiZ ; = : : favored short cuts to success if he! greatest pictures, Doug. shares the zs cials who foreA council of war ensued on the Leslie Howard and Douglas Fair-| had so desired. That was precisely | leading honors with Leslie Howard in PAUL LUKAS gather in the set, followed by a foraging expedibanks, Jr. have the principal roles | what young Douglas did not want. If | this powerful and thrilling drama of oe studio’s private | tion to the studio kitchens. A quick |! “Captured!” which is taken from|he was going to make a namo for/the war prison, camps in Germany, ; Geter, Mat be dining room. inspection of the dishes prepared Sir Philip Gibbs’ celebrated novel, | himself, it would be his own doing. | based upon Sir Philip Gibbs’ novel, q : for the. dasa Incl: h aoe “Fellow Prisoners.” Other import-| So he entered the ranks of the extra | ‘‘ Fellow Prisoners.’’ ib On stage No. 1, at eleven-thirty e day's luncheon showed only} ant members of the cast are Mar-| players and took everything that Margaret Lindsay, the ravishing #e : that morning, Robert Barrat, as| one that would make a suitable sub-| garet Lindsay, Paul Lukas, Arthur | came his way. beauty of ‘‘Cavaleade’’ fame Paul a commandant of the prison camp, | stitute. Hohl, Robert Barrat, Philip Faver-| His absorption in becoming a suc-| Lukas, Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat, a} Frank Reicher in the role of his : sham and Frank Reicher. Roy Del| cessful actor did not, however, pre-| John Bleifer, Philip Faversham and _ adjutant, and several other German That was oe eae beef intended | Ruth directed the picture from the| vent him from making excursions in-| Frank Reicher are important memfor the executive dining room. The| screen play by Edward Chodorov. to other phases of picture-making. | bers of the supporting cast. erm scheduled to sit down Page Three