EPIC LEGION FILM

Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 12

EPIC LEGION FILM

‘ UNDER TWO FLAGS' GREAT SUCCESS Ouida’s was the first of the famous Foreign Legion stories. Now it has been brought to the screen of the State in ‘Under Two Flags ’ with a sweeping spaciousness, a warm realism, and a generous aggregation of stars and well-known actors that make it easy to believe in the quarter of a million pounds it is said to have cost. Ronald Colman plays the young English aristocrat hiding himself in the Foreign Legion because he. blame for a crime committed by his younger brother. The story is concerned with the awakening of love in the care-free estaminet girl Cigarette. (Claudette Colbert), the pet of the for the dashing young Englishman; his careless encouragement when she makes a dead set at him. and her sacrifice when, broken-hearted by the discovery that he loves a titled woman visitor to the Legion headquarters, she leads a relieving force to the little company of gallant men who have been left to fiaht against desperate odds because Commandant Victor M'Laglen is jealous over her affair with Sergeant Ronald Colman. Aliss Colbert makes the mischievous Cigarette a provocative figure, and, of course, there is the irresistible Colbertian note of appeal when the hot-tempered girl finds her wav with a good-looking man taking, for once, the wrong turning. Victor Al'Laglen plays" the tough and bombastic commandant, who thinks Cigarette his own property and sends Colman ruthlessly upon desperate missions.