MORE AIR THRILLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 540, 18 December 1928, Page 15

MORE AIR THRILLS

“LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED” PRIVATE SHOWING Characterised as the companion picture to “Wings,” Paramount’s great epic of the air, “The Legion of the Condemned,” another story of the war from the standpoint of the aviator, was shown privately in Auckland this morning. Here is a story that differs entirely in content from the famous road-show, but in colour*, romance, characterisation and downright thrills, “The Legion of the Condemned” has taken its place right up alongside the other- production. Like “Wings.” the tale is from the pen of John Monk Saunders, a member of the United States Air Corps during the war, andas directed by William Wellman, who is credited with the direction of “Wings.’/ Tlie photoplay deals with an unattached flying unit at the French front, composed of men who, because of their dark pasts, wanted to die. Their daring exploits were the talk of the war. Nothing was too hazai'dous as an undertaking. Into this group of men who welcomed death comes Gary Cooper, as the young American newspaper man. betrayed by his sweetheart. The high spot shows Cooper forced to cari-y his former sweetheart across the German lines as a spy. Fay Wray, as the spy-sweetheart, and Cooper head tho cast, which includes Barry Norton, “Mother’s Boy” of “What Pi-ice Glory,” Lane Chandler, Francis McDonald, Voya George, Freeman Wood, E. H. Calvert, Chariot Bird.