{"id":48423,"date":"2020-04-11T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48423"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:48:04","slug":"under-two-flags-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48423","title":{"rendered":"Under Two Flags (1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Seeing a lady like that makes a fellow feel sort of&#8230; homesick, doesn&#8217;t it, sir?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Poster.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA French Foreign Legionnaire (Ronald Colman) in Algeria falls in love with a visiting noblewoman (Rosalind Russell), who is equally smitten with him. Meanwhile, Colman&#8217;s commander (Victor McLaglen) is jealous and upset that his girlfriend &#8220;Cigarette&#8221; (Claudette Colbert) has also fallen for Colman, and attempts to send Colman into numerous dangerous situations.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claudette Colbert Films<\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Military<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Colman Films<\/li>\n<li>Rosalind Russell Films<\/li>\n<li>Victor McLaglen Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nModern film fanatics will likely be unfamiliar with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Under_Two_Flags_(novel)\">the bestselling 1867 novel<\/a> upon which this romantic desert war flick is based, though it was popular enough to have undergone numerous adaptations before this one. Unfortunately, the story hasn&#8217;t aged well at all, coming across these days as simply an <a href=\"http:\/\/arabstereotypes.org\/why-stereotypes\/what-orientalism\">orientalist<\/a> excuse to mount elaborate battle scenes in what the opening title cards tell us is &#8220;North Africa at the turn of the century &#8212; a land of eternal mystery &#8212; primitive, barbaric, the camel train its only link with the outer world.&#8221; The lead actors all try their best with the material they&#8217;re given, but they&#8217;re merely caught up in a standard cross-class love quadrangle which can clearly only end one way. The location shooting (in Arizona) is quite effective, but otherwise this one is only must-see viewing for completists of Colman, Colbert (who replaced both Simone Simon and Barbara Stanwyck in her role), Russell, or McLaglen. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Cinematography.png 544w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Cinematography-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Under-Two-Flags-Cinematography-128x98.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028442\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1936\/05\/01\/archives\/the-screen-the-legion-marches-again-in-a-dashing-revival-of-under.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.afi.com\/Film\/3903-UNDER-TWO-FLAGS?cxt=filmography\">AFI Catalog Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seeing a lady like that makes a fellow feel sort of&#8230; homesick, doesn&#8217;t it, sir?&#8221; Synopsis: A French Foreign Legionnaire (Ronald Colman) in Algeria falls in love with a visiting noblewoman (Rosalind Russell), who is equally smitten with him. Meanwhile, Colman&#8217;s commander (Victor McLaglen) is jealous and upset that his girlfriend &#8220;Cigarette&#8221; (Claudette Colbert) has also fallen for Colman, and attempts to send Colman into numerous dangerous situations. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Claudette Colbert Films Historical Drama Love Triangle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48423\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48423"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55347,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48423\/revisions\/55347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}