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Show ' AT THE GRAND "SANTA FE TRAIL" AT GRAND FRIDAY Errol Flynn, that most handsome hand-some of all the swashbuckling screen adventurers, is waving sail- -s, firing pistols, flailing fist:; a: galloping horses again, this ti;.. in "Santa Fe) Trail," which is pi ng Friday and Saturday at the Grand. And back of the cameras cam-eras was the old master of fast action and solecisms, Michael Cur tiz, the director, credited with "dis covering" Flynn (it was in "Cap tain Blood") and who has guided Errol through six or seven pictures pic-tures since that time. Back too, in Flynn's arms, Is Olivia de Havilland, just to make the reunion complete. Starting with that same "Captain Blood" they have been in a half dozen or more pictures together,, indicating that Warner Bros, 'consider it a sort of "by public, demand" obligations. Fan approval, indicated by mail received, long has proved the studio stu-dio right. It is primarily the story of "bloody" Kansas Territory and the eastern end of the Santa Fe Trail during the days of John Brown and' his Abolitionist raiders; days in which the United States Cavalry had more than plenty to do; days that almost changed a nation's destiny. Real characters come to life on the screen! in the film. Flynn is Lieut. J. E. B. 'Jeb" Stuart and his partner in adventure is Lieut. George Custer, as portrayed by Ronald Reagan. Five other young I fellows, all under contract to Warner War-ner Bros, portray historical char actors. They; are William Lundi-gan Lundi-gan as Robert Holliday, David Bruce as Phil Sheridan, Frank Wilcox as James Longstreet, Wil liam Marshall as George Pickett, and George Haywood as John Hood. ' There are more. John Brown is played by Raymond Massey, the Canadian-born actor who won first stagej training in England and established es-tablished himself solidly as Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln before American audiences. aud-iences. Robert E. Lee is in the story, plaiyed by Moroni Olson. So is Jefferson Davis (Erville Alder-son), Alder-son), U. S. Grant (Charles Williams), Wil-liams), and Stonewall Jackson, (Louis Payne). Henry O'Neill plays Cyrus . Holliday, pioneer freighter over the Santa Fe Trail and the man who founded Topeka and Leavenworth in Kansas. Olivia de Havilland is his daughter Kate, and there are other characters played, by Alan Hale, Big Boy Williams, Wil-liams, Van Heflin. Cast alone would indicate that "Santa Fe Trail" is strictly magnum mag-num opus. And it is. The story opens at West Point, with the graduation grad-uation of the 'doss of 1854. It moves to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas Territory, Palmyra, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, Boston, Harer's Ferry and back to Santa Fe. o o |
