Parachute Jumper (Warner Bros.) (1933)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION HOW WE WOULD SELL “PARACHUTE JUMPER" In "Parachute Jumper" you have a real mass-appeal picture. Properly sold, it means a busy box office. It combines comedy and top-speed adventure in the exact proportions that have proved successful in a dozen great hits. The picture contains much the same type of characters and situations that made the early McLaglen-Lowe productions such big successes. Your campaign should reflect these main values without setting it up definitely as a comedy or as an air picture. Whip up your ads with the reckless, devil-may-care spirit of the picture. Give them speed, action, excitement! Keynote every ad with the thought that here are men as careless with dames as they are with their lives—as mindless of convention as they are of danger! The picture is packed with situations any one of which is a campaign in itself, but they must be banged across with force a and feeling. 16, You have Fairbanks’ draw, six other names to back it up, a great show, and a walloping big campaign to sell it with—everything a showman can ask from one attraction! DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., in “PARACHUTE JUMPER” an artist’s impression Cut No. 25 Cut 30c Mat 10c THE STORY CAST OF CHARACTERS Bill and Toodles, of the U. S. flying corps, while reconnoitering over Nicaragua, encounter a band of native bandits. ‘They open fire, but their craft is riddled with bullets. They escape in parachutes. A rescue party finds Bill and Toodles celebrating in a saloon and dance hall. Having captured a rebel bandit general and his band, they are hailed as heroes. The two are offered jobs with a commercial air company, but find, on arrival in New York, that the company has gone out of business. They are stranded. Bill runs across Alabama, a stenographer who is out of work and broke. He takes her to their lodgings, much to Toodles’ disgust. Bill makes a few dollars in a parachute exhibition leap. He buys a chauffeur’s uniform, and gets a job from a “sporty” lady. Her sweetheart finds the two in the woman’s apartment, kicks the woman out-and-threatens-to kill Bil” The tatter isso cool about it, the man gives him a job instead. Bill knows he is a “big shot” bootlegger, but he needs the money. He and Toodles run liquor by airplane from Canada, shooting down a couple of federal ships they have been told are operated by hi-jackers. While Bill is waiting in the bootlegger’s office, Alabama comes looking for a job. Knowing the type she is dealing with, Alabama lets the Boss make love io her in a guarded way. Bill is angry. They quarrel and she quits Bill flat. The Boss is jealous and decides to frame Bill, and at the same time kill off a couple of his enemies. He arranges with Steve, a henchman, to meet the two men at a night club, and to take Bill with him. He then warns the police. Steve kills both men. Bill is to be framed for the “rap,” but Alabama, who is at the club with her Boss, calls him aside just as the shooting occurs. The police have become suspicious of the Boss, however, and next morning raid his offices. He grabs his smuggled “dope” and flees with Bill and Toodles by a secret door, opening fire as he leaves, so Steve will be shot. Bill is now wise to the “dope” racket, but is forced to flee with the Boss in an airplane. He warns Toodles, who is in another plane. Toodles sets his craft afire to destroy evidence, and then leaps in a parachute. Bill knocks the Boss unconscious, puts him at the stick, and trusses himself up. Pursuing planes capture them after they crash, arrest the Boss and free Toodles and Bill. Toodles decides to go back to the Marines, but Bill wants Alabama. He finds her sitting on the knee of a business man, where she is applying for a job. He snatches her off the man’s knee, drags her out of the room protesting, and takes her in his arms. OFFICIAL BILLING Warner Bros. Picture, Inc. and The Vitaphone Corp. 25% presents DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. 100% in “PARACHUTE JUMPER” 75% with Leo Carrillo, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh 66 2/3% Directed by Alfred E. Green 20% A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Picture 40% Length ... 6651 feet Running. Time . . . 72 mins. Page Two Ball Keeliierae tr sc. Vanesa, eenereeson Mrs. Newberry. Secretary Steve Coffey Crowley Wilson .-DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. Leo Carrillo Bette Davis pik rhs Sth Setar cee Frank McHugh Claire Dodd Sere Sheila Terry ee erold—reber Thomas E. Jackson Se tee oreorge Pat callings n-Larold Healy seve I rederick Munier SCREEN RECORDS DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.— “Scarlet Dawn,’ “Love Is a Racket,” “It’s Tough to Be Famous,” “Union Depot,” “I Like Your Nerve,” “The Dawn Patrol.” LEO CARRILLO —“The Broken Wing,” “The Girl of the Rio,” “The Guilty Generation,” “Homicide Squad,” “Hell Bound,” “Lasea of the Rio Grande.” BETTE DAVIS —“Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” “Three on a Match,” “The Cabin in the Cotton,” “The Dark Horse,” “So Big,” “The Rich Are Always With Us.” ° FRANK McHUGH — “Blessed “Event,” “One Way Passage,” “Life Begins,” “The Dark Horse,” “The Crowd Roars,” “High Pressure,” “Union Depot.” CLAIRE DODD — “Lawyer Man,” “Crooner,” “The Match King,” “Man Wanted,” “Under Eighteen.” SHEILA TERRY—“Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” “Lawyer Man,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “Three on a Match,” “Scarlet Dawn.” HAROLD HUBER — “The Match King,” “Central Park,” “Frisco Jenny,” “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” THOMAS E, JACKSON—‘Doctor X,” “Big City Blues,” “The Strange Love of Molly Louvain,” “Little Caesar,” “Broadway.” GEORGE PAT COLLINS—‘I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “Central Park,” “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” ALFRED E. GREEN (Director) — ‘Silver Dollar,” “The Dark Horse,” “The Rich Are Always With Us,” “It’s Tough to Be Famous,” “Union Depot,” “Smart ost “Old English,” “Disraeli.” CREDITS Based on the original story by........... ScreensPlaysbys 2 sme eee Photography by Film Editor Art Director Gowns by Vitaphone Orchestra Conductov.......... BS Soin ae es SN ee ao Rian James wwe JO0hn Francis Larkin James Van ‘Trees [Shh ar teeta he, en EDS Ray Curtis nnd ack ‘Okey Orry-Kelly Aah cE a ites eae Leo F. Forbstein TABLE OF CONTENTS Accessories. ..... Advance Publicity . Banner ....... Biographies .... Current, Publicity ee vee Eixcploitations ae es Fashion Feature Feature Stories ......2.2.2..... Lobby Reviews . 12 to 15 ab »