Somewhere in Sonora (Warner Bros.) (1933)

(Advance Reader) Mexican "Rurales” Figure in Latest John Wayne Film A story of thrills and adventures south of the Mexican border, yet without a single Mexican “heavy,” may sound impossible—yet John Wayne’s latest Warner Bros. FourStar Western, “Somewhere in Sonora,” which comes to the . .. . Theatre next... ., is just that kind of a story. There are no lack of villains for John Wayne to deal with in “Somewhere in Sonora’—in fact, there are more than he has yet had to combat in any one picture. But they are all American desperadoes who have taken refuge in Mexico to escape American justice, and have organized themselves under their leader, Monte Black, into one of the cruelest and most formidable gangs of renegades that have ever used the wild Sonora country as their base of operations. Wayne, to be sure, is instrumental in finally bringing the Black gang to justice—but he shares the honor with Mexico’s famous “Rurales,” or state police, who, in their own country, are as famous and intrepid an organization as the Northwest Mounted Police of Canada or the far-famed Texas Rangers. Opening with a thrilling rodeo, the story moves swiftly through a series of hairbreadth adventures and escapes by John Wayne, besides embodying as charming a romance as the screen has depicted for many a day.. Leon Schlesinger is the producer of the picture with Mack V. Wright as the director. The cast in « Shirley Palmer, J. P. Mc snk Rice, Billy Franey, “onry B. Walthall. Watch John Wayne, singlehanded, corral the ‘Brotherhood of Death”—the bandit tribe that infested Mexico and had all the Rurales buffaloed! Never have you seen such daring riding, twofisted fighting, thrilling knife throwing and flashing gun play—and you'll never see it again if you miss JOHN and DUKE * The Miracle Horse with SHIRLEY PALMER, ANN FAYE H. B. WALTHALL A fast-moving 4-Star Western from the Saturday Evening Post novel by Will Levington Comfort Distributed by Vitagraph, Inc. (Advance Reader) Fan Suggests Changing Color of Wayne's Horse If John Wayne heeds the request of an anxious fan, Duke, the Wonder Horse, who appears with him in the Leon Schlesinger Western production, “Somewhere in Sonora,” soon to film at the... . Theatre, will change to a brunette in his next picture. Duke is almost a platinum blonde, his smooth satiny coat a delight to the eye, but, says this particular fan, “I think you ought to change his color to a black or a brown or some dark shade so he won’t furnish such a conspicuous target for the bandits and bad men when he is carrying you out of danger.” “You may be right, at that,” John wrote in reply to the suggestion, “but I don’t think Duke would stand for it. You know, gentlemen rarely dye their hair except to hoodwink Old Father Time and Duke hasn’t reached that point yet. He’s only eight, you know.” John Wayne, western film hero, as he appears in “Somewhere in Sonora.” Cut No. 2 Cut 15c Mat 5c (Advance Reader) “Two-Gun Man Just Literary Fiction,” Says Western Star The two-gun man is just a literary fiction, declares John Wayne, star of “Somewhere in Sonora,’ the Warner Bros. Four-Star Western picture, which comes to the ... . Theatre next week. “With all due respect to writers of Western stories,” John declares, “the only type of man who would think of wearing two guns—much less pulling them—-would be a tenderfoot or a show-off. Neither one would stand much chance in a show-down. Undoubtedly, Westerners carried two guns more often than not, to save them the trouble of reloading in a fight. But they never dreamed of pulling two guns at the same time. “A good shot has all he can do to be quick on the draw with one gun,” continued John, drawing his own revolver to suit the action to the word, and winging a tin can on the top of a post a hundred feet away. “By the time he could get two guns out of their holsters, no matter what our Western novelists tell you about ‘lightnin’ draws,’ even a_tenderfoot would have time to plug him.” John Wayne proves to be just the kind of a quick-shooting cowboy who doesn’t have to rely on more than one gun in his below-the-border adventures which make up the stirring story of “Somewhere in Sonora.” Frank Rice and Billy Franey are the two pals who share his hardships and perils. And though the story is laid almost entirely in Mexico, every villain in it is an American, with the Mexican authorities themselves dividing the honors of the desperadoes’ capture with Wayne. Mack V. Wright directed the picture, which was produced by Leon Npecabetaanecns Schlesinger from Will Levington Comfort’s Saturday Evening Post story. (Advance Reader) Sonora for Years Has Been Used by Bandits Sonora, the northwestern sta. of the Republic of Mexico, which forms Sonora,” which comes to the... . Theatre next... ., lies just across the border from the United States. Because of its location and .its prevailing wildness, it has been for generations an ideal refuge for lawless characters of all nationalities. Its extensive grazing lands made it an ideal theatre of operations for cattle thieves who, in the days of the great herds, preyed upon the American cattle-owners of Arizona and New Mexico. “Somewhere in Sonora” deals with Wayne’s adventures with a formidable band of American ‘desperadoes, who have for years been the terror of the American owners of the silver mines in Sonora. Mack V. Wright directed the picture, which is produced for Warner Bros. by Leon Schlesinger. The story is from the pen of Will Levington Comfort, noted war correspondent and novelist. (Advance Reader) Author of Western Thriller Worked as War Correspondent Will Levington Comfort, whose novel, “Somewhere in Sonora,” is the basis. of John Wayne’s latest starring vehicle produced by Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. release, began life as a soldier and saw service as a war correspondent on two continents before he settled down to the life of a successful story writer, He was a member of the 5th United States Cavalry during the SpanishAmerican War in 1898. When his term of service had expired, he went to the Philippine Islands and China as war correspondent for various American newspapers. In that capacity, he was an eye-witness of most of the important engagements in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Before his death a few months ago, Comfort had nearly a dozen novels to his credit and innumerable short stories and articles. “Somewhere in Sonora,” now showing at the... . which is Theatre, horse,’ Duke, under the direction of Mack V. Wright. The screen play is by John Roach. Others in the cast are Henry B. Walthall, Frank Rice, Billy Franey, Shirley Palmer, Ralph Lewis and J. P. McGowan. stars John Wayne and his “wonder | on where in Sonora,” John Wayne. Cut No. 1 When John and his handsome or fighting to save beleaguered whites from their Indian attackers, you can reach him at the Warner Bros.-First National studios. Unless, of course, he’s on location. But between pictures, John is “rambling,” as he calls it, and his rambles take him hundreds of miles away from cameras, microphones and incandescert lights. : re Ts = -~ ——— —+2 wey ' ~-““Terner, vohn Wayne does iis sg y 19" tance rambling in an automobile. He has only a limited time in which to play between productions — never more three weeks, at the most. His objectives are three or four hundred miles from the nearest studio. Sometimes it’s Death Valley. Sometimes it will be the mountains of Arizona, or the desert canyons beyond Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. But John’s favorite rambling place is the Land of the “Forty-Niners”’— the country of the historic old mining towns, ghostly monuments of the days when they were roaring.camps of gold. The country Bret Harte made famous in such stories as “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” ‘and other immortal tales. Once a year—if not oftener—John Wayne gets an overpowering yen to visit the “northern diggins,” as they are still called in mining circles, and ramble from one town to another, steeping himself in the legends of the old camps, and listening to the tales of the days when Columbia, Sierra Cut 30c a = More exciting than any of the previous four star westerns is *“Somewhich features the versatile western film star, Mat 10c (Advance Reader) Famous Western Star Fond of Visiting Mining Towns F YOU’RE looking for John Wayne, Western star, and he isn’t busy making one of the yarns of the saddle that have made him a favorite of American boys all over the country, you're not likely to find him anywhere around Hollywood. horse, Duke, are engaged in out witting a bunch of rustlers, upholding the honor of the Rangers, jiotineier.Ruebaeensaesita eye City, Downieville, Dutch Flat, Goodyear’s Bar, Alleghany, North San Juan and Oroville were in their golden prime. Maybe it was because his latest picture, “South of Sonora,” was a story of a silver mine. But the day after the last scene was taken for “Somewhere in Sonora,” which will be shown. next gone aes burning up che inguways acd — the Yuba and American River country. _ “Some day I hope Ill be able to make a picture around one of those old towns,” said John, as he stood beside Duke on the sidelines of the set where the company was working. “Among the older inhabitants of places like Downieville, Columbia, Dutch Flat and so on, you can always find somebody who has_ the whole history of the place at his tongue’s end, and is tickled to death to spin yarns for you as long as you'll listen. “T’m just about ready for another load of that country, and that’s why I’m hiking off to those diggins for a week or two.” “Somewhere in Sonora,” John Wayne’s fifth starring picture under the production banner of Leon Schlesinger for Warner Bros. release, is from the novel by Will Levington Comfort. Mack V. Wright is the director and the cast includes Frank Rice, Billy Franey, Shirley Palmer, Ann Faye, Ralph Lewis, J. P. McGowan, Paul Fix and Duke, “the devil horse.” John Wayne and Shirley Palmer, who are co-featured in the rousing “Somewhere in Sonora.” . Cut No. 3 Cut 30c Mat 10c