Desert Drama Has Tremendous Theme

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 237, 7 October 1936, Page 11

Desert Drama Has Tremendous Theme

"UNDER TWO FLAGS" IS LAVISHLY FILMED (State: Screening Saturday.) The sands of Sahara’s flame with revolt and France’s Foreign Legion nghts and loves with gallantry again in 20th Century’s “Under Two Flags," the tremendous drama spectacle which brings Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell to the screen. Telling the story of a man who is brought back from a self-imposed doom by the love of a woman, the new picture affords Colman aud Miss Colbert the greatest opportunities of their unusual screen careers. ■ She is a hoydenish child of tho desert, madly in lovo with the charming Colman, but ho in turn gives heart to Rosalind Russell. Wheu Colmaa’s commander, Victor McLaglen, finds that this soldier stands between him and Miss Colbert, he makes every effort to destroy his subordinate by placing him in posts of danger. The thundering climax shows how a Legion attack, headed by Miss Colbert, rescues Colman from the tortures of the Arabs.

Frank Lloyd directed this mammoth undertaking which employed ten thousand extras in the making.

Gregory Ratoff, Nigel Bruce, C. Henry Gordon and Herbert Mundin are only a few of the illustrious names that grace the supporting cast of this Darryl F. Zanuck production.