Somewhere in Sonora (Warner Bros.) (1933)

(Prepared Review) “Somewhere in Sonora,” an Movie Company Roughed It Action Packed Thriller While Making Western Film NE of the fastest moving and thrilling Western pictures that has come to the screen in many a month opened .. . . at the .... Theatre. “Somewhere in Sonora,’ produced by Leon Schlesin ger and released by Warner Bros. , brings us once again John Wayne and his wonder horse, Duke, who proves himself as good an actor as any human member of the cast. This picture is all the more thrilling because it contains more than the usual amount of elements that go to make up the average Western film. A rodeo, with none of its exciting details NEES Sime , is : topped by a stage-coach race in which one of coaches a wheel i while traveling at break neck speed. It is this latter incident which forms the starting point of the <-story. JOHN WAYNE John Wayne, Cut No. 4 Cut 15c Mat 5c accused of causing the accident, escapes across the Mexican border and starts on a search for his employer’s son, who is thought to be mixed up with a bandit gang. His first stop across the line lands him and his two com SLUGS and D U KE 4 the Miracle Howse in ‘SOMEWHERE — INSONORA’ ~wy. — rere fe . ’ “ Mat Se Cut No. 11 Cut 20c rough and tumble of the bandit panions into a fight with members gang. In order to find his employer’s son and to forestall an expected attack on a silver mine owned by the father of the girl he loves, he joins the bandit gang from which no member has been allowed to leave alive. His initiation into this gang provides the audience with some exciting examples of fast shooting and knife throwing. The picture is so crammed with action and suspense that it is one of the most enjoyable of the current day Western thrillers. An exceptionally fine supporting cast adds to the entertainment value of the picture. Shirley Palmer adds beauty and romance to the action, while other capable performers include Henry B. Walthall, Ann Faye, Ralph Lewis, J. P. McGowan, Frank Rice, Billy Franey and Paul Fix. The script was adapted from the Saturday Evening Post story by Will Levington Comfort, and was directed by Mack V. Wright. Se Cae Mat Se Cut No. . Cut 20c (Current Reader) Region Made Famous by Billy the Kid Is Locale of New Film The country made famous by Billy the Kid and his gang nearly fifty years ago is the picturesque locale of the latest Warner Bros. Four-Star Western starring John Wayne and his “wonder horse,” Duke, “Somewhere in Sonora,” which is now being shown at the. ... Theatre. Opening in Southern Arizona, not far from the Mexican border, with a stirring rodeo, the story takes Wayne and his two pals into Sonora, where in the days of the “open range,” gangs of cattle thieves gathered to make their periodical raids on herds of the Arizona cattle-owners. ~ It is with a different stripe of bandit that Wayne has to deal in his latest picture. The bandit leader and his men are American desperadoes and criminals who, for years, operated in Mexico terrorizing the silver mining camps of Sonora, largely owned and operated by Americans. With the aid of Mexico’s famous ‘Rurales,’ Wayne eventually rounds up the entire gang. In the cast of “Somewhere in Sonora” are J. P. McGowan, Ralph Lewis, Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer, Ann. Faye, Frank Rice, Billy Franey, Paul Fix, Jose Dominguez and Slim Whittaker. Mack V. Wright directed the production for Leon Schlesinger, from the Saturday Evening Post story by Will Levington Comfort. (Advance Short) John Wayne's "Duke" in Latest Western Film John Wayne’s amazingly intelligent horse, Duke, who shares his adventures in every one of his Warner Bros. Western pictures, never fails to “ring the bell,’ to use a slang expression. But in “Somewhere in Sonora,” Duke very literally rings the bell, and does it in the nick of time to save the little mining camp ‘in Sonora from being wiped out by a gang of murderous American desperadoes. The part Duke plays in foiling the schemes of Monte Black and his gang is only one of the dramatic thrills of “Somewhere in Sonora,” John Wayne’s latest starring vehicle in his series of Four-Star Westerns, which will shortly be shown at the .... Theatre. (Current Short) Henry B. Walthall in Pictures for 25 Years In one year from now, Henry B. Walthall will celebrate twenty-five consecutive years in motion pictures. He recently celebrated his twentyfourth movie birthday while working in the Leon Schlesinger production, “Somewhere in Sonora,” which was released by Warner Bros. and is now playing at the .... Theatre. He started his movie career playing the Little Colonel in “Birth of a Nation” in 1909. He appears in “Somewhere in Sonora” in support of John Wayne. Others in the cast are Shir ley Palmer, J. P. McGowan, Ralph Lewis, Ann Faye, Frank Rice, Billy Franey, Paul Fix and John Wayne’s horse, Duke. Sn (Current Feature) S Bake old West of fifty years ago was vividly revived by John Wayne and the troupe that crossed the international border into Sonora for a few days of fast work on location for his latest Warner Bros. Four-Star Western drama, “Somewhere in Sonora.” As nearly as possible, Wayne, his cowboys and his production crew, together with the actors who went along, lived the life of a group of cowpunchers, on the trail with a range herd in the ’80s. It may sound old-fashioned, but it actually saved time. The trip to the border, of course, was made by motor car, in up-to-the-minute, twentieth century fashion. But once the location was. reached where so many of the stirring scenes of the picture were shot, the company settled down to the life of an open cow-camp for five days. Twenty miles from the _ nearest town they pitched tents and got ready to rough it. For the veteran cowboys in the troupe, it was a lark. For the actors themselves, it was fun and adventure. For the first time in their lives, Shirley Palmer and Ann Faye, the two actresses in the cast, had the thrilling sensation of sleeping under the stars wrapped up in blankets and sleeping bags. In the Arizona town they had left behind them when crossing the line into Sonora, the company had engaged a regular “chuck wagon” and a cow-camp cook who knew how to throw together a meal that would tickle any appetite sharpened by a day’s work in the open. By the simple process of camping on their location each night and getting all the meals on the spot from the chuckwagon, the company gave themselves at least two hours a day extra shooting time that would have been consumed in traveling to and from town each day, if they had made Cut No. 13 Cut 40c their headquarters in a community that boasted a hotel. After dinner at night, the whole troupe gathered around the big campfire—for an hour or two of good fellowship before turning in. One of the more musical cowboys | would drag out a fiddle or a guitar —both instruments had been brought along by their owners—and the desert night would presently echo to the strains of some of the famous cowpuncher songs of bygone days—‘The Old Chisholm Trail,” “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie,” “The Streets of Laredo,” “Poor Lonesome Cowboy” and others. By ten o’clock—often earlier—the entire camp would be wrapped in slumber, with just a watcher on guard. By sunrise, the troupe would be ready for another day’s work. Perfect weather was in the company’s favor from the time they left the Warner. Bros.-First National studio until they returned to Hollywood. Mack V. Wright, as director, and Sid Rogell, associate producer of the John Wayne Westerns with Leon Schlesinger, were in charge of the company on location. In the cast with Wayne, beside Duke, the “wonder horse,” are Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer and Ralph Lewis. “Somewhere in Sonora” is an adaptation by Joe Roach of the celebrated Saturday Evening Post story from the pen of Will Levington Comfort. Mat 10c 4 United “Sfates, ana“ tus for the Sky, Stranger!” Those Western stars are back again — the horse that thinks and the king of the cowboys—to thrill you in a story crammed with more action, excite“ment, adventure and « romance than you’ve everseen onthescreen! Be sure to see the Miracle Howse ia ‘SOMEWHERE IN SONORA’ Qa with Henry B. Walthall, Shirley Palmer, Ann Faye... Another rousing 4-Star Western distributed by Vitagraph, Inc. STRAND Cut No. 10 Cut 20c Mat 10c (Current Short) Latest John Wayne Western Film Shows Mexico's "Rurales”™ One of the few times that Mexico’s famous “Rurales,” or provincial police, have ever been shown on _ the screen is their appearance in John Wayne’s “Somewhere in Sonora,” now playing at the .... Theatre. Oddly enough, Jose Dominguez, who plays the role of captain of the Rurales, served among them for a [time himself before coming to the é grandfather: was an Officer in the distinguished organization for a number of years. (Advance Reader) Cameramen Exposed to Danger Filming Action in Thriller John Wayne, star of “Somewhere in Sonora,” the four-star Leon Schlesinger Western which comes to the .... Theatre next... ., believes in giving credit where credit is due. The actors are not the only ones who were subjected to risks of personal injury in filming the spectacular stagecoach crash and other hazardous scenes for “Somewhere in Sonora.” Wayne feels that T. D. McCord and his camera crew are entitled to some recognition for their daring and hair-raising experiences while recording the many breath-taking scenes shown in the finished picture. Shots of galloping hoofs from practically underneath the horses, a runaway team in full flight photographed from a few feet away and a madlycareening stagecoach headed straight for the camera were all in the day’s work for McCord and his assistants. Yet the average movie fan rarely, if ever, realizes the hazardous work of cameramen, especially when filming a Western thriller such as “Somewhere in Sonora.” (Advance Short) Thrilling Stagecoach Race in Western Film An old-fashioned stagecoach race— one of the greatest of Western outdoor sports, and still a feature of many present-day rodeos—is one of the numerous highlights of John Wayne’s latest Four-Star Western, “Somewhere in Sonora,” now playing at=the. —....._ Theatre. Reminiscent of the days when weeks of travel by stage was the only way to get overland from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Coast, long before the advent of the railroad, a stagecoach race is still claimed by those who have seen them run off to be one of the most thrilling races in the world. “Somewhere in Sonora” is taken from Will Levington Comfort’s Saturday Evening Post story, directed by Mack V. Wright and produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. release. Page Three