SOUND FEATURES: UNDER TWO FLAGS (1936)

CREDITS

Released: May 1, 1936

Production Company: Twentieth Century Productions

Featured Cast: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell, Gregory Ratoff, Nigel Bruce, C. Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin, John Carradine, Lumsden Hare, J. Edward Bromberg, Onslow Stevens, Fritz Leiber, Thomas Beck, William Ricciardi, Frank Reicher, Francis McDonald, Harry Semels, Nicholas Soussanin, Douglas Gerrard,

Director: Frank Lloyd

Producer: Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck

Associate Producer: Raymond Griffith

Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer

Editor: Ralph Dietrich

Art Director: William S. Darling

Casting Director: Phillip Moore

Makeup Artist: Tony Carnagle, Dick Narr

Costume Designer: Gwen Wakeling

Hair Stylist: Marie Brasselle

Settings: Thomas Little

Props: Clarence Baker, Glenn ‘Skippy’ Delfino, George Starkey, Joe Thompson

Unit Manager: Ben Silvey

Production Manager: Ed Ebele

Composer: R.H. Bassett, David Buttolph, Cyril J. Mockridge

Musical Director: Louis Silvers

Sound: Joseph E. Aiken, Roger Heman Sr.

Sound Effects: Slip Carruth

Process Photography: Edwin Hammeras

Special Effects: Fred Sersen

Presenter: Joseph M. Schenck

Camel Wrangler: Carl Stecker

Writers: Ouida (by: a story of the French foreign legion), W.P. Lipscomb (screenplay), Walter Ferris (screenplay), Bess Meredyth (screenplay), Allen Rivkin (additional dialogue)

STORY

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother’s crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison.
Written by Ed Stephan

TECH

Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min) (copyright length)
1 hr 38 min (98 min) (re-edited) (re-release) (USA)
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Color Black and White
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Film Length 3,059.89 m (12 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Only the 95-minute reissue print now exists from the 112-minute original, with John Carradine’s role deleted.

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