Star Witness (Warner Bros.) (1931)

STUNTS AND IDEAS! Excerpts From N. Y. Reviews “A well-knit melodrama with an effective vein of sentiment. As an entertainment it is highly successful.”—N. Y. Times. * * * “Not only timely, but moving and dramatic. Here certainly is the stuff of effective drama.” —Herald Tribune %* * * Good story, excellently told; there are laughs mingled with its tragic factions, and not a little inspiration to be better American citizens. Warners have clicked again.” —American % *% * “A vivid screen drama that parallels grim fact. Its appeal is powerful. Filled with suspense.” Eve. Journal ® * x 2 Made of the stuff that popular pictures are made of.”—Daily News o * * Constantly gripping, thrilling and powerful document. First rate entertainment.”—W orld Telegram *% * * “A vivid, arresting picture. Sure-fire! It moves rapidly, it is exciting, it is well acted.’"—Eve. Sun * 2 * Has its power in the conviction that the tragic events might have happened to any domestic group living in any community today.” —Eve. Graphic — % 2 * “Comes uncomfortably close to the truth. The cast « is excellent. Merits public attention—Eve Post x * % Packs a punch with pathos and humor. Smacks of brilliance. Picture of merit.’—Morning Telegraph o# # % “A story made doubly impressive by its timeliness. Thrilling entertainment. A vastly entertaining picture.”—Daily Mirror Lobby Card Suggestions WALTER” ¢ HUSTON CHARLES “CHIC” SALE DICKEY MOORE FRANCES STARR GRANT MITCHELL RALPH INCE Enlarge stills (Star Witness—226, Pub. R and Pub. A3) coloring with a flesh tint. Background of heads in blue with. title in red and cast and copy in black on a light green ground. Star is in yellow with face in blue. Mount stills (Star Witness 218, 230, 22, Pub. S) coloring with a light purple tone. Copy is black on green ground. Title is in green on purple ground. Copy at sides is in purple on yellow ground. Enlarge still (Star Witness Pub. A 3) and run in natural tone. Background of head and title is in blue with title in white. Run circles in green, yellow and red. Copy and cast is in black on a yellow ground.... Follow ad illustration and use (Star |. Witness 228, 41, Pub. A 3) Color ground red and title and copy in black. Cast is yellow. Color hand in deep purple... . Chic Sale Came Early To The Lot To Put On ‘Star Witness’ Front A week of ten-hour working days was used by Charles (Chic) Sale in applying his make up for “The Star Witness” coming to the....... a neawe ee next during filming of the picture at the Warner Bros. studio in Hollywood. This time represented one-fifth of the five weeks before the cameras. It meant, however, no actual loss of studio hours, for Sale applied his greases, rouges and crepe hair in those hours of the morning before the rest of the company came to work. Sale’s character in “The Star Witness” is that of a Grand Army veteran, a feeble but high-spirited old fellow who comes through with flying colors—freeing his kidnapped grandson—foiling the gang that did it and giving a live tip to the cops. It took Sale two hours each morning—from seven until nine—to prepare for his day’s work, for the make-up had to be-camera-proof in order to preserve the illusion of age through all manner of close-ups and medium shots. Walter Huston and Frances Starr are also featured in “The Star Witness” and the cast includes Sally Blane, Grant Mitchell, Edward J. Nugent, Dicky Moore, Ralph Ince, Tom Dugan, Russell Hopton, Fletcher Norton, Robert Elliott, Guy D’Ennery, George Ernst, Mike Donlin, Noel Madison, Ed Deering and Nat Pendleton. William Wellman directed. Civil War Veterans | Look On At Filming Of “Star Witness’’ (Advance—Plant 1 Day Before) The montony of life was relieved for several hundred veterans of the National Soldiers Home at Sawtelle, California, during the filming of Warner Bros. “The Star Witness,” in which Charles (Chic) Sale and Walter Huston are featured and which comes to the........ Theatre Sees next. The Home and its surrounding grounds were used as backgrounds for several sequences of the production, in which Sale portrays his famous character of Gran’pa Summerill—the man who knew Lincoln. Sale’s mimicry was regarded with distrust by the several genuine Grand Army veterans at the home until they became assured, through watching him work, that he was not burlesquing the character, but treating it with sincere reverence. Sale explained to these Grand Army boys that never in his more than twenty years of stage work has he presented a character that could possibly offend even the original from which it was taken and they believed him. Others in the cast of “The Star Witness” are Frances Starr, Sally Blane, Grant Mitchell, Edward J. Nugent, Dicky Moore, Ralph Ince, Tom Dugan, Russell Hopton, Fletcher Norton, Robert Elliott, Guy D’Ennery, George Ernst, Mike Donlin, Noel Madison, Ed Deering and Nat Pendleton. William Wellman directed. PPh in ARLES Sa IY Tooter mn th HEROES OVERNIGHT ! Their story—their pictures carried on every front page! They have knowledge of the most vital importance to the state—And they’re going to tell it even at the cost of their lives! Remember Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in “The Kid”? Here’s another great team in a picture equally as great! WITN A thundering drama of power! Theone picture you’ll remember! with WALTER HUSTO CHAS. “CHIC” SALE DICKEY MOORE FRANCES STARR RALPH INCE — SALLY BLANE ROBERT ELLIOT A WARNER BROS & VITAPHONE DRAMATIC THUNDERBOLT! Bring the family Tonight Cut No. 11 Cut 40c, Mat 10c CATCHLINES SOMETIME OLYMPIC WRESTLING KING HERE IN FILM “The Star Witness” Will Make Your Blood Tingle—Start Your Tears and Stop Them With Uproarious Laughter! Nat Pendleton, winner of the world’s amateur wrestling crown at the Olympic games in 1920 and professional champion of Europe in 1924, is a member of the cast of “The Star Witness,” the Warner Bros. production featuring Charles (Chic) Sale and Walter Huston, now at the....eccccccces. Theatre. Pendleton, before his Olympic competition was intercollegiate champion of the United States, winning that title at Columbia University where he was captain of the wrestling team. “The Star Witness” presents Chic Sale as Gran’pa Summerill—the man who knew Lincoln—a part made famous by him on the vaudeville stage. Gran’pa gets a forty-eight-hour leave from the Soldiers’ Home, during which he frees his kidnapped grandson, rounds up the thugs, gives some tall tips to the cops an caps the climax by acting at the trial as the star witness. William Wellman directed. * + * & Self-Preservation is Nature’s First Law! See “The Star Witness” for Proof! * *e #£ & Is Crime Your Problem—or thie Law’s Problem? * oe * x Absorbing Solution of the Question of the Hour! * ££ * & If You Were Forced to Be the Star Witness Would You Think of Self or Country? koe & * Are We All Cowards at Heart? See “Star Witness”! -——— ee SSG, Page Three GRANT MITCHELL r ~ _USE THEM!