“DIVE BOMBER”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 5

“DIVE BOMBER”

A THRILL-A-SEGOND STORY PROGRAMME AT REGENT ERROL FLYNN—F. MacMURRAY Every type of fighting and observation ’plane used by the United. States Navy, including the newest super-bombers and fastest pursuit and interceptor ’planes off the assembly lines, were used in filming the new picture, which will show at the Regent Theatre to-night, and Tuesday —Warner Bos.’ “Dive Bomber,” all-in-colour special in which Errol Flynn and Fred Mac Murray are co-. K starred.

The entire picture was filmed without interruption of any training or flight routine necessary under the current emergency defence programme in. the United States. To see that this was so, and also to see that Warner Bros, got every possible help, official Washington assigned Commander J. R. Poppen and 1 Commander Seth Warren, U.S.N., to work with Director Michael Curtiz and the company in filming “Dive Bomber,” parts of which were made in Pensacola and at Pearl Harbour, in addition to those scenes made at the San Diego, California, base. The cast, in addition to Flynn and! Mac Murray, includes Ralph Bellamy, Regis Toomey, Robert Armstrong, Allen Jenkins, Herbert Anderson, Craig Stevens and a score of other young leading men in minor cadet and pilot roles. Only woman in the cast is startlingly lovely Alexis Smith, who appears briefly but memorably to stir up a little trouble "between Flynn and Mac Murray.

Real stars of 'the air epic are the ’planes themselves, and the big ships that serve them. Many of the scenes were made aboard one of the larger ’plane carriers, the'Enterprise, which happened to be stationed at San Diego while the Warner Bros, company was on location there.

Strictest rules governed all members of the film troupe while at the base. Members of the cast and crew,. without exception, had to wear special photographic identification badges at all times, carry California automobile drivers’ licences (which bear fin-ger-prints of the licensee), and. stay within the area in which the company was working for the day.