The Last Flight (Warner Bros.) (1931)

a YOU ARE PLAYING THE BIGGEST FIVE DAREDEVILS IN SEARCH OF A THRILL! They laugh but not for Joy! Drink but get no slow! Kiss but feel no love! From ad venture to adventure—seek ing some new thrill to drown the memory of the last! Dick as Caty o his ship witl ~48e drinking 4 RICHARD |hit of Cut No. 9 Cut 60c Mat r5c is down to earth in his follow up ‘The LAST HELEN CHANDLER * as Nikki who put on : red shoes to keep ; pace with the gang! DAVID MANNERS as Shep, he’d do anything for a thrill, JOHN MACK BROWN ex-football hero who threw tame horses and tackled wild bulls! “4 ELLIOTT NUGENT | who siested a chim _ watch to keep eee awake! : Barthelmess And Cast|Dick Does Best Work | Jeweled Turtles Figure In Enthusiastic About “The Last vast Flight’ f (Advance—Plant 5 D 5 Days Before) “The Last Flight,” the First National feature starring Richard Barthelmess, which comes to the Theatre with unusual pleasure by star and cast. “No picture in which I have ever worked,” said Barthelmess, “called forth so much enthusiasm. The players virtually pleaded for the parts. The role of the girl seemed to be something that every actress in Hollywood wanted to play.” The dialogue, written by Saunders, is flippant but subtle. The action of the five men and a girl who roam from Paris bars and eafes to Portugal in quest of excitement are devilmay-care and light-hearted — but with an undertone of tragedy. The characters were difficult to cast. The men finally chosen were Johnny Mack Brown, Elliott Nugent, Walter Byron and David Manners. Helen Chandler is the girl, Nikki— who could walk faster in red shoes. William Dieterle directed “The Last Flight,” with Sid Hickox at the camera. The story will be remembered as “Nikki and Her War Birds,” which ran in Liberty Magazine, later published in novel form as “Single Lady.” Page Four next, was made In Forty-Sixth Role In “The Last Flight” (Current—Plant 5th Day) Although Richard Barthelmess has been continuously in motion pictures since the days of “Way Down East” he has never had so unusual a role as the one he plays in “The Last Flight,” the First National produetion now at the Theatre. This story, adapted from “Nikki and Her War Birds” by John Monk Saunders, deals with the experiences of four war-torn aviators, who drift about from bar to bar in Paris, finally joining with a lonesome and lovely lady, whose mysterious past intrigues them as much as her mysterious present. Barthelmess, as the leader of this happy-go-lucky band, portrays a young man who cannot get over the excitement of his wartime experiences, but is forever seeking thrills to take its place. It is the exact situation that thousands of war veterans found themselves occupying at the close of the World War, and Barthelmess’ portrayal of is character role—the comedy and romance—are suffused with the right undertone of tragedy. Helen Chandler plays the girl who could “walk faster in red shoes.” John Mack Brown, David Manners, Walter Byron and Elliott Nugent play the four buddies of the hero. William Dieterle, directed. “The Last Flight”? Scene (Current Reader) Two small turtles, their shells adorned with rhinestones, play an important part in “The Last Flight,” the First National feature starring Richard Barthelmess, now at the Bai sae aes Theatre. The turtles are the pets of Nikki, the girl in this film version of the John Monk Saunders story. It is when Cary, played by Barthelmess, mentions the great love story of Heloise and Abelard, that Nikki finds a name for her two turtles and thus causes a breach between herself and Cary. She Says She Can Walk Faster In Red Shoes (Current Reader) Nikki, the girl in “The Last Flight,” the First National production starring Richard Barthelmess which is currently playing the .... Be Cee gine ee Theatre, wears red shoes when walking because “she walks faster in red shoes.” This is one of the familiar lines from “Nik ki and Her War Birds” by John Monk Saunders upon which “The Last Flight” is based. Helen Chandler plays Nikki while Barthelmess is seen in the starring role of Cary Lockwood, ex-war-flier adrift in : Paris after the war. RICHARD BARTHELMESS HAS NO FEAR OF PICTURE-STEALERS; PRAISES THE EXCELLENT CAST First National Star To Be Seen Theatre In Film By The At The OF “LAST FLIGHT” Next Author Of “The Dawn Patrol’’ (Short Feature. Hollywood, Calif. inquired Richard Barthelmess the show, isn’t it, if everyone Plant in No. 2 Papers Four Days Before Run) —‘Steal the picture? What if they do?’’ amiably. ‘‘All the better for in the cast is swell ”’ One screen star thus casyally shattered the ancient credo tha tall film luminaries are ‘‘camera hogs’? — unpretty but expressive term for much Hollywood behavior. Mr. Barthelmess was submitting suavely to an interview and the topic at the moment was his recently completed picture, “The Last Flight,” adapted by John Monk Saunders from his own “Nikki and Her War Birds,” a brisk tale of a group of post-war misfits trying to mend their lives at Paris bars. This little coterie of serious drinkers is a quartet, if this reporter’s memory serves. Each is sketched vividly; each is of almost equal importance to the story: Cary Lockwood, Minnesota farm boy, badly burned while bringing down an enemy plane; Bill Talbot, once allAmerican fullback, now an ace with occupation gone; Francis, “the Washout,” restless neurotic; and Shep Lambert, ex-gunner, wealthy but miserable. In the order named, these roles have been assigned to Mr. Barthelmess, John Mack Brown, Elliott Nugent and David Manners. “Healthy competition for any star, don’t you agree?” asked Mr. Barthelmess when he had named _ these names with gusto. “After all,” he pursued, still wearing his slight smile, “if a star can’t hold his own w'*h other competent actors in the seribed a downward curve — “the skids are just the place for him.” In addition to the four musketeers of the martini, there is Nikki herself, the girl with red shoes. She drinks too. She doesn’t, however, drink so much as the “spent bullets” whom she loves and pities. Helen Chandler plays this outstanding part. Walter Byron has another important role. Mr. Barthelmess mentioned that certain people had said to him: “Isn’t it pretty daring on your part, putting yourself in this spot—making yourself only one of several leading men?” That’s how the matter happened to come up. He laughed. “Why keep on building up the legend that every actor is more jealous than our old friend, the woman scorned?” he continued. “It isn’t so. Anyway, I know several who aren’t. So far as I can see, the only daring thing about ‘The Last Flight’ is the yarn itself. It doesn’t fit into any of the accepted files. There isn’t even war in it— except in the first sequence or two. What’s more and better, it’s honest. A swell story—and I’m delighted I could do it.” Mr. Barthelmess will be seen at pe ee ae Pheatres tes next in “The Last Flight,” his latest First National starring vehiele. What Can They Do When War Thrills Are Over (Current Reader) A tragi-comedy is the best possible description of “The Last Flight,” the First National production starring Richard Barthelmess, the sensationally successful feature now running at the Theatre. The light-hearted acceptance of life, the resignation to a straight-for-hellexistence, the story of ex-war-fliers, who, having gone through the very jaws of hell are now asked by peacetime conditions to lead quiet, civil lives—this is the theme of “The Last Flight.” Underneath the banter and kidding of the chief characters there is the note of tragedy and frustration. Some Amazing Sights You Will Gasp At In “The Last Flight’’ Though “The Last Flight”? the First National picture starring Richard Barthelmess, now at the Theatre, has tears as well as laughs in its ‘thrilling story of four exfliers—and the girl they adopt —who go in search of excite ment to drown the monotony of ante-war days—it presents such a panorama of odd sights as you never have met with before. You will see turtles with their shells studded with rhinestones; a Portugese shooting gallery in full action; the crash of a flaming plane; a girl who “walks faster in red shoes”; a football player who tackles a horse and carriage in crowded Paris streets; a bull fight; a cemetery as locale for a romantic love scene, and then some! The pl ee — yonn Mack Brown, Davia is.an= ners, Walter Byron and Elliott Nugent. John Monk Saunders did the story. William Dieterle directed. NIKKI AND HER BOY FRIENDS ARE ON THE SCREEN AT LAST f @ Richard * rthelmes Prien: triumphant TteL AST FLIGHT DAVID MANNERS JOHN MACK BROWN HELEN CHANDLER ELLIOTT NUGENT WALTER BYRON STARTS TONITE WARNER Cut No. 5 Cut 20c Mat 5¢