Cry Wolf (Warner Bros.) (1947)

“CRY WOLF’”’ CMR (Errol Flynn Feature) “Hollywood My Home,’ Says Irish Star Flynn “Hollywood is my home, and nothing can ever take me away from it—except the sea.” That is the way Errol Flynn feels about the film city he once likened to “just another kind of gold mine” only perhaps a little richer than the one he discovered in New Guinea a few years ago. The sea has won temporarily. The last bit of film from his most recent picture for Warner Bros.’ “Cry Wolf,” which comes Friday to the Strand, wasn’t dry when he sailed out of Santa Monica harbor, on his way down the California coast to Central America aboard his 118-foot, two-masted schooner, the Zaca. But he’ll be back. “Not that I’m ungrateful for all that Hollywood has given me,” he used to explain when he talked about the future. “But it’s too good to last indefinitely. And I’ll be damned if I'll hang around when I’ve finished. “No sir, when I feel that I’m through, I’ll be on my way with out regrets. I’m not sure what T’ll do, but I’ll have a boat and I'll guarantee you I won’t be on the verge of bankruptcy. Maybe I’ll just sail around for the rest of my life, stopping whenever and wherever the mood strikes me. It’s a big world and there’s lots of parts of it I haven’t seen yet.” The Irish actor has put down roots since he talked like this. His home on Mulholland Drive has an air of permanance. He is taking his acting stints more seriously than ever before. And the Zaca, he says, was “bought for work,” and not vagabonding pleasure cruises. Recently his father, Dr. T. Thomson-Flynn, in collaboration with Prof. Carl L. Hubbs of Scripps Oceanography Institute at La Jolla, conducted an investigation of various forms of marine life. Errol took background footage for his projected feature film, “Treasure in Yucatan.” Hollywood isn’t tired of Errol Flynn, and he isn’t tired of it. (Barbara Stanwyck Reader) Only ‘Cut!’ Saves Stanwyck Barbara Stanwyck sported a fine pair of black and blue marks above the elbow of each arm as a reminder of a dramatic film scene she played with screen newcomer Richard Basehart; who apparently doesn’t know his own strength. The film in question was Warner Bros.’ “Cry Wolf,” the Errol Flynn-Barbara Stanwyck co-starring vehicle now at the Strand. The sequence being “shot” called for Basehart to hold the actress in a vise-like grip while she struggled to make her escape. Basehart followed directions exactly. The actress spoke her lines with great feeling. “Stop it!” she moaned. “You’re hurting me!” She struggled in vain to free herself. Basehart held on until director Peter Godfrey yelled, “Cut!” Only then did he release her. With great admiration, he remarked, “You certainly sounded as if you meant that, Barbara.” “7 did,” the star assured him. By early afternoon Miss Stanwyck showed her bruises to prove it. When last heard from, Basehart was still apologizing to the bruised but glamorous star. “CRY WOLF" STAR PAIR Still No. 666-515 ERROL FLYNN and BARBARA STANWYCK are the new star love team in “Cry Wolf,” Warner Bros. film coming Friday to the Strand. Flynn is a member of a wealthy family and the guardian of its estate which is being contested by Miss Stanwyck. The mysterious happenings at the lonely country estate where the action of the film takes place, form an exciting backdrop for their screen romance. MAT No. 2€ NOW AT STRAND Still No. 666-49 BARBARA STANWYCK and Geraldine Brooks in a key scene from “Cry Wolf,’ the Warner Bros. adventure drama in which she stars with Errol Flynn, and now playing at the Strand Theatre. The story of a wealthy family and the battle over a trust fund, the action of “Cry Wolf” takes place on a country estate, with plenty of mystery, action and romance throughout the film. MAT No. 2F (Flynn-Stanwyck Feature) Flynn Has to Rough Up Femme Star in ‘Cry Wolf’ It happened during the filming of Warners’ “Cry Wolf,” now playing at the Strand. The scene: the attic laboratory of scientist Errol Flynn. Flynn is half hidden behind a door. Barbara Stanwyck, his attractive co-star, climbs the ladder to the roof and shinnies up its slope to a glass skylight. The cameras start turning. Miss Stanwyck hangs by her hands from the frame of the sky-light, then drops to the couch below. She regains her balance as Flynn comes menacingly near. “T’ve been waiting for .you,” he tells her quietly. She jumps up, tries to escape through the door. He blocks it with his bulk. “T want to find Jim.” Because she is cornered, she has gained the courage to defy him. “Do you think he has risen from the dead?” Flynn sneers. “J don’t know what you’ve done with Jim—but I do know what happened to Julie,” she continues. “You may not have killed her with your own hands, but you drove her to her death.” “She was running away. She slipped, climbing down the trellis.” Flynn’s manner is that of a man repeating a _ well-worn story. “There is something you should know.” Barbara flings the phrase at him. “Everything she said about hearing voices— screams—a man crying out—I know is true, because I heard it, $00.7 “T see.” He is obviously shaken. “And what use are you going to make of this knowledge?” She is watching his face. She does not answer. He grabs her wrists. “Answer me!” he shouts. His hands move from her wrists to her throat. He pushes her roughly toward the opposite wall, tightening his grip. She hits the wall with a thud. “Cut!” director Peter Godfrey calls out. Barbara Stanwyck realistically gasps for breath and feels at her throat. “Couldn’t he cut?” she inquires of Godfrey. “An ear-toear job with a good sharp knife would be a lot less painful!” ” (Flynn-Stanwyck Reader) Errol Turns Other Cheek During the filming of Warner Bros.’ hit drama, “Cry Wolf,” now at the Strand, film star Errol Flynn learned at first hand that no good comes of trying to please everyone. It happened this way: For one particularly dramatic sequence, Barbara Stanwyck, who co-stars opposite Flynn in the suspense film, was supposed to slap him resoundingly. Director Peter Godfrey, offering last-minute directions for the scene, admonished the actress as follows: “Really let him have it the first time, Barbara, and we won’t have to make a lot of takes.” “Okay,” she agreed. “Roll ’em,” said Godfrey. Miss Stanwyck braced herself, drew back her arm and let go with a terrific right to Flynn’s © cheek. Flynn’s head snapped from the impact. He put his hand to his stinging cheek and groaned, “Ooh, what a wallop!” “Good,” said Godfrey. “How about you, Carl?” “Okay for me,” said cameraman Carl Guthrie. Godfrey turned next to soundman Chuck Lang. “Sounded like a paper bag being popped,” said he. “Miss Stanwyck must have cupped her hand_ too much,” “Okay — we'll have to do it again,” called Godfrey. “And we'll just keep doing it,” he added, as Flynn grimaced overtly, “until everyone’s satisfied— or Flynn is black and blue!”