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...secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose job was to bribe or kill Knox's witness, whichever seemed best. Knox made Witness Karelsen lie low in her compartment, kept an eye on her as best he could. Unfortunately for his plans, Runaway Husband Jason celebrated his new freedom by taking...
...performing their specialties. Miss Joyce is on hand looking, naturally, for a millionaire. A young employe of American Electric Co. (Stuart Erwin) is accused of having measles, causes the International House to be placed in quarantine. He finally manages to buy the rights to the radioscope, escape with his fiancée (Sari Maritza). Through all this rigmarole, W. C. Fields wanders with a frozen face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie...
...President takes over the liquor trade as a Federal monopoly, packs the Supreme Court with his supporters to forestall legal hitches. When the President's pretty young secretary, inadvertently visiting relatives in Jersey City, is horribly wounded by gunmen, he adroitly capitalizes the red-hot indignation of her fiancé by making him chief of a federalized police force to root out crime and racketeering. Chicago becomes the scene of siege operations as the Federal "Green Jackets" bomb under-worldlings out of their fortified lairs. Meanwhile Washington has superseded State authority by its power of the purse, and cities...
...trees. When a young castaway (Richard Arlen) turns up at the island, Dr. Moreau regards him as a suitable mate for his artfully constructed "panther woman." The romance progresses nicely until the castaway notices that the panther woman's finger nails are claws. Finally the castaway's fiancée comes to rescue him, accompanied by a drunken sea captain...
Island of Lost Souls is worth seeing particularly for the moments in which Dr. Moreau twitches quietly with pleasure as he allows himself to think what he will cause to happen to the castaway's fiancée when she goes to bed. In Hollywood's current cycle of horror pictures, this one deserves to be rated as much more atrocious than The Mummy (TIME, Jan. 16), a shade less discomforting than last year's Freaks...