Man Hunt (Warner Bros.) (1936)

Villian More Interesting Than Hero, Says Cortez Famous Screen Heavy Now Playing Bank Robber in “Man Hunt” ‘‘Seoundrels are nearly always interesting,’’ according to Ricardo Cortez, who plays the role of a notorious outlaw in the Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘Man Hunt,’’ which comes (6 She eS THEStte 260.35 55 ec, =e ‘‘Applying the fact to my own profession, I saw that the ‘menace’ was always a centre of interest’ on stage or screen whenever he entered the scene. It may not be sympathetic interest, but it is genuine, inevitable. The spectators may not like him, but they don’t easily forget him. “Tf I wanted certainty of a long career in pictures, I decided the surest means of achieving that end was to concentrate on playing that one type of character who almost invariably compels attention, whether the film itself be bad, indifferent or good. That Cortez was not mistaken in his reasoning is fully evident in the fact that he has much the longest record of continued prominence of any of the younger veterans of the screen. Even among the prominent older players he has only three rivals in durability — Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Charles Chaplin. The career of the chief villain of the Warner Bros. lot actually began about seventeen years ago, when he got his first extra job. It was in 1923 that he played his first important role, and throughout the ensuing dozen years he has remained in the top rank of his profession, having oa rade the transition from oe tO taikiiie pictures: “&T 0 much responsibility is centered in the star,” he said. “In the minds of the public, and even in the industry itself a star’s picture is invariably thought of as just his picture and not as a production for whose success or failure a great many persons besides the star share the responsibility. “Of course that’s fine when the picture is a great success. But how many successes are there? “Even the people in the industry, who should know better, blame the star rather than the production when it is not a box office success. “That being the case, it seems good, sound sense to me to plan my career so that Tl always have important parts but never be the fellow who gets ninetynine per cent of the blame when a picture does not come up to expectations. “Man Hunt” is a stirring drama with a thrilling chase for a murderous bank robber by Federal Agents, and the part played in it by a hick reporter and his sweetheart. Besides Cortez the cast includes Marguerite Churehill, William Gargan, Charles (Chic) Sale, Richard Pureell, Olin Howland, Addison Richards, George KE. Stone and Anita Kerry. William Clemens directed. Gargan Pilots Steam Engine for Film In the course of the filming of his current Warner Bros. picture, “Man Hunt,’ which comes to the .Theatre on William G@erpan satisfied a yearning which he, in common with nearly every man in the United States, has harbored since boyhood. He piloted a railroad locomotive while on location at a country town railroad station. A locomotive and several coaches had been hired for the day, and during the shots of the train pulling into the station, Gargan with the real engineer at his elbow, drove the huge engine. “Chic” Sale As the small town ex-sheriff, who tells such convincing lies he believes them himself, Charles “Chic” Sale is responsible for much of the humor in the hilartous Warner Bros. picture “Man Hunt” now making a hit at the Mat No. 107—10c Director Puts Actors Asleep By Hot Lights William Clemens, director of the Warner Bros. picture, “Man Hunt,” which comes to .Theatre on , hit upon a novel method to get several players in the proper mood for a scene. This sequence shows Addison Richards and __— several others, playing the part of GMen, just after they return fruitless all night search for Ricardo Cortez. So he called them together on the set where several big ares were burning to explain the scene. By prearrangement he was called away by his assistant. In a short time the from the lights made them doze off. When they were sound asleep Clemens had _ his assistant waken them suddenly and rushed them right into the picture. They looked not only sleepy but bleary eyed. from a heat Comedian Now Plays Gangster Role Throughout his career mainly a comedian and nearly always a sympathetic character, George E. Stone has turned to villainy since going with Warner Bros. His first role in this new guise is in “Man Hunt,” which comes GOSH sien = Aas Theatre on ie Sale ee . He plays an accomplice of Ricardo Cortez, who is the arch villain of the piece. Cortez Villains Always Behaves a Do Human Being Ricardo Cortez has added another characterization to the lengthy gallery of portrayals of suave, soft-spoken, outwardly gentlemanly rascals. His present role is that of a jail-breaking bandit who is the center of interest in the Warner Bros. picture “Man Hunt,” which comes ture “Man Hunt,” which comes to the ONWCALLG 20Ne =e es Most of the plot development in “Man Hunt” hinges upon the ability of the character played by Cortez to convince the heroine, played by Marguerite Churchill, that he is not nearly so _ bad a fellow as publie repute has him. At the same time, for the story to be effective, the audience must be kept fully aware that he is a sinister figure. This rather paradoxical job of convincingly deluding other characters in a picture as to his real nature while making the audience thoroughly conscious of his actual character is an old story to Cortez. “The old-fashioned type of menacing, sneering, brutal heavy is past,” said Cortez. “After all, a villain is not any different from other men and should be played as a natural human being.” “Man Hunt? combines stirring melodrama with romance and hilarious comedy. Besides Cortez, the cast ineludes Marguerite Churchill, William Gargan, Charles (Chic) Sale, Addison Richards and George E. Stone. William Clemens directed. Actress Demands. Career Because Marguerite Churchill has returned to screen work after her marriage two years ago, her fellow actors in the Warner Bros. picture, “Man Hunt,” which COMCS=tO—tNGses Theatre , were curious about the attitude her husband, George O’Brien, took in regard to it. “Well,” said Miss Churchill, “it just doesn’t seem possible that in this day and age there! should be any argument as to whether a married woman can have a eareer. I believe I have a right to express myself on the screen, but I do not believe in negleeting my family while doing it. “My husband agrees with me completely.” Leads ‘Man Hunt’ William Gargan is the small town reporter who busts a bank and catches a crook with a double-barreled load of thrills and laughter in “Man Hunt,” the Warner Bros. hit at the GE ee Theatre. Mat No. 106—10c Thrills and Fun Make Sure Fire Film, Says Star Action and humor are _ two basic elements which will insure the success of almost any film, in the opinion of Ricardo Cortez, who has the leading role in the Warner Bros. picture, “Man Hunt,” which comes to the...... TP heatTexOl sie. ho sa es “Tf a film has either of these elements, it has more than an even chance of success,” he said. “Tf it happens to have both, I’d regard it as sure-fire. “Man Hunt’ is strong in all the elements which go to make up a good picture. It is essentially an action picture with a strong leavening of humor.” Most of the humor evolves about the character played by Chie Sale, but nearly all of the action is dependent on the part that Cortez takes in the development of the plot. “Man Hunt” is stirring drama of the chase of a murderous bank robber by Federal Agents, and the part played in it by a hick reporter and his sweetheart. New Team of Film Lovers Marguerite Churchill returns to the screen as the film sweetheart of William Gargan in a picture loaded with thrills and pees “Man Hunt,” the Warner Bros. hit coming to the... Theatre on________._ Mat No. “210—20¢ Chic Sale Draws Character From Home Town Liar “When I’m playing this part, I’m always thinking about an old fellow back in Urbana, IIL, that we used to call ‘Windy’ Miller,” remarked Chie Sale, while working in “Man Hunt,” the Warner Bros. picture now showing at the eee Theatre. Sale’s role is that of a doddering old man who had once been sheriff of the community in which the picture is laid. That town is in the region of Kansas that was once the locale of stirring exploits of the James and Dalton boys, and old Ed Hoggins, the retired sheriff, is much given to telling highly colored yarns of his personal experiences with those bandits. “To put it frankly,” Sale remarked, “Ed Hoggins is a liar. But he’s not what you’d eall a plain liar. He’s been telling his yarns for so many years that he just about believes them himself. “The old fellow who was known as ‘Windy’ Miller when I was a boy in Urbana was the same type. Some of his yarns were obviously untrue. Once somebody made a_ survey of Windy’s pet yarns and found they covered a period of 480 years.” “Man Hunt” combines stirring melodrama with romance and hilarious comedy. Besides Sale the cast includes Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, William Gargan, Addison Richards, George E. Stone and Anita Kerry. < William Clemens airedted A picture from the screen play by Roy Chanslor, based on the story by Earl Felton. Chic Sale Hayseed And Proud Of It You can’t make Chie Sale angry by ealling him a hayseed. Several members of the cast of his current Warner Bros. film, “Man Hunt,’ which comes to the Soe Chee th Gate eRe Theatre on found out one day on the set when they were kidding him about his perennial rusticity. “Sure I’m a hayseed,” he replied. “I found that out when I read the remark of a eritie who wrote that ‘Chic Sale was born with hayseed in his heart.’ “Because I had been an actor for a number of years when that remark was made, I regarded it as a tribute, for I had begun to fear that my years on the stage might have made a big city feller out of me.” Chic Sale Rewrites Own Film Lines His success both as an actor and as an author is due more to his powers of observation than to imagination, says Chie Sale, who has a leading role in the Warner Bros. picture, “Man Hunt,” which comes to the . Theatre on “What I mean,” he adds, “is that every supposedly fictional character I’ve ever played has actually been modelled on some person I’ve known, most of them, of course, during my small-town boyhood.” Although Chie is not the author of “Man Hunt,” he re-wrote most of the lines for his role to make them fit a model he remembers from his boyhood in Urbana, II1., a harmless and delightful old prevaricator known generally as “Windy” Miller. A Warner Bros Picture ® Country of origin U. S. A. Copyright 1936 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers.