The Younger Brothers (Warner Bros.) (1949)

PUBLICITY COP “THE YOUNGER BROTHERS” “THE YOUNGER BROTHERS" portrayed by Wayne Morris, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton and James Brown, in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor film of that title. Opens Friday at the Strand. Still 704-612 Mat 704-2C GUN-TOTIN' Janis Paige is a femme outlaw in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor western drama, “The Younger Brothers’, opening tomorrow at the Strand. Wayne Morris and Bob Hutton are listening. Still 704-2 Mat 704-2A BROTHERS. Bruce Bennett, Bob Hutton and Wayne Morris as three of ''The Younger Brothers" in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor drama of that title, now showing at the Strand Theatre. Still 704-304 Mat 704-2B Wayne Morris Once Rode The Range Wayne Morris is as much at home in the saddle as at the controls of a plane. The husky Warner Bros. star came out of World War II a lieutenant commander with two Distinguished Flying Crosses and four Air Medals. However for his role in the new Technicolor action film, ‘‘The Younger Brothers”, Morris sticks to the saddle. He was a California forest ranger before going into pictures, and rode eight hours a day, six days a week, patrolling 36 square miles. 8 Geraldine Brooks In Outdoor Role Geraldine Brooks, who shares feminine honors with Janis Paige in Warner Bros.’ new Technicolor action film, “The Younger Brothers’’, used to do impersonations of movie stars in Broadway musicals. It was this talent which paved the way for the brunette beauty into Hollywood. In the new film, Gerry plays the role of the girl from back home who waits for Bruce Bennett while he is awaiting a pardon. It’s also her first western picture since she came to the film capital. (General Advance) ACTION ACCENTS ‘THE YOUNGER BROTHERS’ Plenty of action accents Warner Bros.’ Technicolor film. ‘‘The Younger Brothers,” starring Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Geraldine Brooks and Robert Hutton. It opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. This action-filled tale of the old west is a unique combination of fact and fiction. The Younger brothers were determined to regain their lost ranch land which had been pillaged, and they wanted most of all to return to their homes. The setting for “The Younger Brothers” is laid against that section of the old west, which included certain portions of Minnesota near the Missouri border. Law and order were in a constant state of clashing, and in the midst of this atmosphere moved the rugged Youngers. Morris, Bennett and James Brown play the older boys, and Bob Hutton is cast as the youngest one of the four. Morris, who played the ex-Army officer turned usher in “John Loves Mary,” leads off the bright cast. Bennett, at home in rugged roles such as “Silver River” and in the prize-winning “Treasure of Sierra Madre,” is on familiar ground here in “The Younger Brothers.” Feminine honors are divided between Janis and Gerry Brooks as the fiancee of one of the brothers. Janis plays the leader of a tough band of outlaws. WAYNE MORRIS PONDERS SLAP Amiable, husky Wayne Morris went slightly temperamental for the first time in his entire motion picture career during production on Warner Bros.’ Technicolor film, “The Younger Brothers,” coming soon to the Strand. All he was asked to do was slap Janis Paige. “Don’t be squeamish,” Director Edwin Marin encouraged him. “There’s nothing to it. Look at little Jimmy Cagney.” “Yeh, but that’s just it. He’s more their size. Look at me, six feet, two; 200 pounds.” “Janis,” Wayne took over as complete master of the situation. “Tf I pull my punch, it may not look right and Ed (Marin, the director) will probably talk us in to doing it again, and it would still hurt you. If you don’t mind,” he suggested diffidently, “I’d like to slap you hard and get it the first time.” He did. (Opening tomorrow) NEW WARNER EPIC IN TECHNICOLOR OPENS TOMORROW Thrills and romance of the west fill Warner Bros.’ Technicolor melodrama, “The Younger Brothers,” starring Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Geraldine Brooks and Robert Hutton. It opens tomorrow at the Strand Theatre. The drama, showing all the magnificence of some of the early untamed west, is set against that part of Minnesota adjoining the Missouri border. The action takes place over a period of two weeks in the year 1876. And action there is aplenty. As the outlaws in the big bankrobbery scene clash head-on with the Younger brothers, there is enough gunplay and hard riding to suit the most avid of action fans. “The Younger Brothers” furnished a number of ‘first times’ in the dangerous action for at least two members of the large cast, and in at least one instance the players found their acting assignment rather harrowing. Wayne Morris was to slap Janis Paige in one sequence, and by mutual agreement between the pair, there were no rehearsal slaps, only one convincing one. BRUCE BENNETT ‘HANDY MAN’ For some of Hollywood’s more unusual secrets, there would be no better source—if he would talk—than Warner Bros.’ Bruce Bennett, whose new Technicolor film, “The Younger Brothers” opens tomorrow at the Strand. As an example, it will come as a surprise to Errol Flynn, though the pair worked together as recently as the filming of “Silver River,” that for ten years Bruce not only has been aware of the secret compartment in Flynn’s study desk, but he also knows where it is and how to open it. Bruce, one-time shotput champion of the United States, is also qualified as an expert finisher of fine furniture, he has just confessed. As an apprentice at this craft—without pay—at one of the film city’s swankiest furniture makers, he worked on these two pieces. When newly married and sans sufficient money for furniture in the depression year of 1938, Bruce sweated out building a bookcase. “TI promised myself then,” says Bennett, “that when I could I’d learn how,” and a few years later he fulfilled that promise—put in six months as an apprentice. COLUMN ITEMS When Wayne Morris was 18 years old he was a forest ranger patrolling 36 square miles of territory in the Angeles National Forest Reserve... James Brown is former Texas municipal courts tennis champ ... Janis Paige plays her first death scene in this western melodrama . . . Geraldine Brooks was discovered on Broadway in a musical where she did impersonations of film and stage stars .. . the outdoor scenes were filmed on the Warner ranch near Calabasas, Calif. ... Fred Clark, who plays the ‘heavy’ in the picture, came to Hollywood with a reputation as a Broadway comedian. . . Six cameras shot the big fire scene at the end, so as to insure full coverage . .. Jim Brown used to be vocalist with Garwood Van’s Orchestra ... Monte Blue and Alan Hale are prominent in the supporting cast ... “Kid Galahad” was Wayne Morris’ first click in films ... Fred Clark plays the western strawhat circuit in between films ... Alan Hale hopped between sets of “South of St. Louis” and “The Younger Brothers’, a distance of 30 miles, for his current assignments. . . Wayne Morris plays a wider range of roles than anyone on the Warner lot at present. From “John Loves Mary” to “Kiss In The Dark” and now the hard-riding Younger leader . . . Janis Paige plays a gun-totin’ femme leader of a band of outlaws in this sweeping film. WAYNE MORRIS, JANIS PAIGE Still 704-654 Mat 704-1A BRUCE BENNETT, GERALDINE BROOKS Still 704-633 Mat 704-1D ROBERT HUTTON Still 704-321 Mat 704-1C Ex-Tennis Champ In Warner Western Jim Brown, last on the Warner Bros. lot to play important roles in “Air Force” and “Objective, Burma,” returned to this studio to portray the second oldest Younger brother, Bob, in the Technicolor melodrama, “The Younger Brothers.” Jim is a former tennis champ, having been champion of the Texas State Municipal Men’s Singles for the years 1937-39-40.