Another Dawn (1937)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

William Dieterle

Writers:

Laird Doyle (story)
Laird Doyle (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 June 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave...

Plot Keywords:

Army | Desert | British | Sahara Desert | Golf

Cast

Kay Francis	...	Julia Ashton Wister
Errol Flynn	...	Captain Denny Roark
Ian Hunter	...	Colonel John Wister
Frieda Inescort	...	Grace Roark
Herbert Mundin	...	Wilkins, Wister's Orderly
G.P. Huntley	...	Lord Alden (as G.P. Huntley Jr.)
Billy Bevan	...	Pvt. Hawkins
Clyde Cook	...	Sergeant Murphy
Richard Powell	...	Pvt. Henderson
Kenneth Hunter	...	Sir Chas. Benton
Mary Forbes	...	Mrs. Lydia Benton
Eily Malyon	...	Mrs. Farnold
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alec Harford	...	Steward (scenes deleted)
Milton Kibbee	...	(scenes deleted)
George Regas	...	Sheik Achaben (scenes deleted)

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono | Vitaphone

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2754)

Filming Locations:

Imperial County, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Before this movie was made, any Warner Brothers film which showed a movie marquee would indicate that a movie named "Another Dawn" was playing at the cinema. Unable to come up with a title for this film, they decided to actually create a movie named "Another Dawn."

Quotes:

Julia Ashton Wister: We can't be blamed for what we want, only for what we do.

Those thrilling days of yesteryear

On the positive side, the makers of this film did leave over a few cliches for someone else. And it is entirely possible that when this picture was made the story elements had been used only dozens, rather than hundreds, of times before. But while numerous movies more than fifty years old have held up very well, this is one that has become an unintentional parody of itself.

The romantic femme fatale, mourning a lost love of her youth, and convinced she can never love again; the dashing, devil-may-care adventurer, certain that no one female could ever hold him; the middle-aged paragon of duty, service and principle, asking only to be allowed to worship that desirable woman, expecting not love, but merely loyalty, in return; the coward scorned by his mates, living for nothing but a chance to redeem himself. And much more, including British colonials, devious Arab chieftains, the burning desert, a suicide mission, memorable dying words, and of course, a young, spectacularly handsome Errol Flynn.

They don't make them like this anymore.