Captured! (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Note to Exhibitor:—Plant this stery about four days before you release your first advance story. Strand Promises Film To Startle Toledo FansSoon The Strand is about to startle the town with a picture the theme of which is so daring that even the management awaits its reception with bated breath. Not much information is available at headquarters, for, apparently, the Strand prefers to burst its bomb at the premiere of the unusual film which will reach the Strand in the very near future. Its title is “Captured,” and whatever the mysterious dynamite of the story may be, it is assured of fine presentation by the exceptional cast. It seems certain that “Captured” provides its best roles for male players, for in the masculine lineup are Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, — Jr., and Paul Lukas, among others almost equally popular. Information from Hollywood indicates that the locale in this Warner Bros. picture is a war-time prison camp. But the intimation is that this is merely the background for the TNT drama contained in the yarn. The most important of the feminine parts, perhaps the only girl in the film, is Margaret. Lindsey, late of “Cavalcade.” It seems that “Captured” will bear watching for. your 2nd story ‘Captured!’ Presents A Most Unusual Love Tale in Stark Drama The heroes of the prison camps during the world war—the men whose daring and courage has gone, for the most part, unhonored and unsung while the more spectaculs! achievements of their comrades Still in the trenches have been chronicled —these ‘‘fergotten men’’ of the inscrnational conflict come into their own in the Warner Bros.’ production, ‘‘Captured!’’ which will be shown at the Theatre NOM ss. waa , with three great stars featured. No Victoria Crosses, Congressional Medals or Croix de Guerre were awarded the officers and men who distinguished themselves in the prison camps under conditions, often more trying and helpless than any to be found in the fighting sections of the western front. Sir Philip Gibbs, famous British war correspondent and probably the most brilliant of all the newspaper representatives who followed the titanic struggle during the four years of its continuance, was one of the few writers to memorialize, with his pen, the prisoners of war. His novel, ‘“Fellow Prisoners,’’ is almost unique in its vivid delineation of the trials and sufferings endured by the inmates of prison camps, and it is the Gibbs story that has been dramatized with all the resources of a modern motion picture studio, in ‘“Captured! ’’ Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Paul Lukas share the leading honors in the story, the first two as two British army officers who have not seen each other since the days of their university friendship until they meet, as prisoners of war, in the bleak German prison camp behind the Hindenburg Line. The love of these two men, comrades in both war and peace, for the same English girl, who is the wife of one though she is in love with the other, percipitates a crisis in the lives and fortunes of the hundreds of prisoners herded into the camp. This love triangle results in the most amazing, yet thoroughly credible series of events ever snown on the screen. It makes powerful drama, which, while laid in the main in a Page Four BARBED WIRE LESLIE HOWARD, PAUL LUKAS, and DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr., the sensational new drama, “Captured,”’ which comes to the Strand your 3rd story your 4th story Cut No.14 Cut 45c Matic Leslie Howard Felt|Leslie Howard Heads Right At Home When|Cast of Six Famous He Made ‘Captured!’|Stars in ‘Captured!’ When Leslie Howard arrived at the Warner Bros. studio in North Hollywood to start work on ‘‘Captured!’’ which ‘opens “at “the. er Ses WD NOR ULC ROM cates meena aes sess , he immediately found himself surrounded with old friends. Yet he never before had set foot on that lot. Howard’s first motion picture, mo@g two years ago, was a Warner Bros. production, filmed at the company’s studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. His first picture completed, Howard went back to Broadway, and-in the course of time, the Warner studio merged with First National and moved to North Hollywood. When the star returned to pictures for good, his activities took him to nearly every studio in Hollywood, but it was not until he was signed for the lead in the powerful love drama, ‘‘Captured!’’ that he returned to the banner that had first welcomed him to filmdom. = Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who was featured with Howard in ‘‘Outward Bound,’’ is with him again in the present picture. The assistant director and the still man are also the same who worked with Howard in ‘‘Outward Bound.’’ _ To add still further to the coincidence, the opening scenes of ‘‘Captured!’’ take place in a dense fog. while all of ‘‘Outward Bound’’ was shot in a thick and eerie haze caused by gallons of a pungent-scented petroleum oil shot as a heavy vapor through a spray gun. When Howard first sniffed that odor, he says, he immediaely felt right at home. Others in the cast inelude Paul Lukas Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat, Philip Faversham and Margaret Lindsay. Roy Del Ruth directed the screen play, which is based on the novel by Sir Philip Gibbs. German prison camp, is not a war story, but a tale of heroic sacrifice for the sake of love. An exceptional cast is assembled around Leslie Howard, young Fairbanks and Paul Lukas for the interpretation of ‘‘Captured!’’ Margaret Lindsay as the girl Monica, Frank Reicher as the German adjutant, and Arthur Hohl, Philip Faversham, Robert Barret, William LeMaire and J. Carroll Naish in equally important parts, lend brilliant support to the principals. Roy Del Ruth directed. Jove triangle in a An unusually large list of distinguished players make up the cast of Warner Bros.’ dynamic story of a German prison camp, ‘‘Captured!’’ which opens at fies os ore A NeaAthe Ons, «ce There are six players who have ranked as stars on stage or screen and sixteen players in the more important roles. Besides these there are a number of strong minor roles with more than 150 players in the parts of prisoners in the detention camp. The list of stars include such players as Leslie Howard, Douglas Fair banks, Jr., Paul Lukas, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Hohl and Robert Barrat. Besides a distinguished stage eareer, Leslie Howard has recently appeared in such productions as ‘Animal Kingdom,’’ ‘‘Smilin’ Through,’’ ‘‘Devotion’’ and ‘‘Se erets.’’ He is one of the most polished and forceful players of both stage and screen. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who has risen steadily to stardom on _ the screen, has recently been seen in ‘«The Narrow Corner,’’ ‘‘The Life of Jimmy Dolan’’ and ‘‘ Parachute Jumper.’’ Paul Lukas has long been known for his leading parts and stellar roles in pictures and will be remembered in ‘‘Grand_ Slam,’’ “‘Women Love Once’’ and ‘‘The Vice Squad.’? Margaret Lindsay, a comparatively newcomer to the screen, made an almost instantaneous hit, after winning laurels on the legitimate stage. Her first big picture success was in ‘*Cavaleade,’’ which was followed by ‘‘Private Detective 62,’’ ‘‘Baby Face’’ and ‘‘Voltaire’’ opposite George Arliss. Arthur Hohl and Robert Barrat are both stage stars who have recently made successes in pictures, the former appearing in the recent pictures, ‘‘The Narrow Corner,’’ ‘‘ Baby Face’’ and ‘‘Private Detective 62,’ and Barrat appearing in ‘‘ Lilly Turner,’’ ‘‘The Mayor of Hell’’ and ‘¢Picture Snatcher.’’ Others who have important roles include such players as John Bleifer, Philip Faversham, Frank Reicher, Joyce Coad, William lLeMaire, J. Carrol Naish, Bert Sprotte, Reginald Pasch, Harry Cording and Hans Joby. ‘“Captured!’’ is a powerful story crammed with action and dramatic dynamite, based on the novel, ‘‘ Fel COMPLETE 10-DAY ADVANCE ENCLOSES CAPTOR AND CAPTURED as they appear in a scene from next. your 5th story Former German Army Man Drilled Cast in ‘Captured!’ Scenes Although ‘‘Captured!’’ is a powerful love drama, laid for the most part in a German military prison camp, the exact military routine of a war camp was followed during the filming. The fidelity with which the military procedure of the German army was reproduced in ‘‘Captured!’’ a Warner Bros. picture which opens at the hea tresoncs nse : was due( to the well informed watchfulness of Curt Rehfeld, technica! assistant to Director Roy Del Ruth. A German by birth, and having served his time as a soldier in thi armies of the Kaiser when military service was required of every able bodied male in the Fatherland, Rehfeld volunteered to be responsible for the military details of the picture. With native thoroughness, Rehfeld took in hand the German extra players who were to compose the prison camp guards, and put them daily through a manual of arms, that would have done eredit to a Prussian drillmaster. It was good-natured but inexorable in its insistence upon precision. Several of the actors wha had been in the German armies grinned reminiscently as ‘‘Captain’’ Rehfeld’s commands, barked out in the best military style, rang across the big stage where the prison camp had been built. Similarly, Rehfeld undertook to coach Paul Lukas, Frank Reicher and Robert Barrat, the officers in command of the camp, in every phase of German military procedure required in the course of the production. .Particularly important was the courtmartial scene, in which Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as an English officer who is a prisoner in the camp, is on trial accused of the murder of a little peasant girl. Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. are the brother officers who bear the brunt of the drama in ‘“Captured!’’ Other important players in the cast are Margaret Lindsay, Paul Lukas, Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat, John Bleifer, Philip Faversham, Frank Reicher and J. Carroll Naish. ‘‘Captured!’’ is an adaptation of Sir Philip Gibbs’ celebrated novel, ‘‘Fellow Prisoners,’’ by Edward Chodorov. low Prisoners,’’ by Sir Philip Gibbs and adapted to the screen by Edward Chodorov. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. your 6th story Powerful Influence of 2 Women Felt, Not seen in ‘Captured!’ While women are almost complete ly absent in the sense of physical propinquity from the main drama of ““Captured!’’ a Warner Bros. picture opening at the Theatre on , they are vividly, powerfully present as an influence and as a dominating motive. In fact, their effect upon the story is in inverse ratio with their physical distance from the East Prussian prison camp where the drama takes place. two women are Specifically, only ever mentioned by the actors or seen by the audience. One is the beautiful English — gil, Monica, hundreds of miles away in London, andthe other is the little milk maid, sweetheart of one of the Ger— man prison MARGARET guards, whose _ LINDSAY tragic death at Out No. 2 the hands of a Out 15¢ Mat 5c half-crazed Russian precipitates the climax of the story. The only two feminine characters, Monica and Elsa, are the motives for eis the most decisive events in the life _ of the camp, Probably no heroine in modern motion pictures has ever dominated and decided the fate of 150 men so completely as does Monica, the warbride of ‘‘Captured!’’ the production of ‘‘Cavalvade,’’ hag the role of Monica in the picture. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and~thesle Howard have the roles of her sweetheart and husband. Other members Margaret Lindsay, who scored so decisively >**<—* of the carefully choses cast are Paul Lukas, Robert Barrat, William LeMaire, Frank Reicher, Philip Faversham, Arthur Hohl and Reginald Pasch. Roy Del Ruth is the director. _ Margaret Lindsay in 2 Pictures at Same Time Margaret Lindsay had the unique experience of playing in two roles at the same time in two different, pictures which are a hundred years . ? apart in time. One day she interpreted the part of Moniea, a twentieth century English girl in the Warner Bros. picture “Captured!” which comes to the........ ig ae Theatre on The next day she donned powdered wig. and brocaded silks of an eighteenth century French demoiselle in “Voltaire,” the latest George Arliss starring vehicle. She declared it gave her a thrill to leap from one century to another overnight—the biggest she’s had. ENGLISH STAR : LESLIE HOWARD, idol of playgoers, stars in “Captured,” which will be seen at the Strand Theatre beginning Cut No. 17 Cut 15¢ Mat ibe o