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Guard Troy Wade dozed in the shade of a tree, his shotgun beside him. Near by, Convict Frank Conley waited, watched, his hand on a knife hidden in his clothes. Far down at the end of the line he saw two convict guards saunter up to the driver of the prison water wagon-an Indian, in for rape-and train their guns on him. At the opposite end of the line two convict guards armed with shotguns quietly moved up on the regular prison guards. It was just...
...Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
Lukas (cynical Convict Hessler), J. Edward Bromberg (timid Convict Flaubert), Albert Dekker (bossy Convict Moll...
Through the horrors of an escape through the jungle, a sea voyage without water, fights, murders, lusts and treachery, Convict Hunter comforts the fugitives. One by one he makes each criminal understand in his own case the words he reads the survivors: ". . . for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." Only skeptical Paul Lukas does not believe: he does not even understand...
...long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always in danger of seeming preposterous, Cinemactor Hunter manages to be natural and supernatural at the same time, compassionate without becoming mawkish...