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.