Word: manukura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure in trying to break the will of the same. And all the while Mr. Hall is suffering from the folly he does not understand, a lovely wife, Dorothy Lamour, is waiting on the island paradise of Manukura for the end of her husband's ever increasing prison term...
...Hall finally succeeds in escaping frim his Tahitian cell and proceeds to guide a canoe over six hundred miles of open ocean to Manukura. Strange as it may seem, the incidents in his journey are so well chosen that the laments of good luck or coincidence never destroy the suspense. Then comes, perhaps, the greatest climax that has yet been seen on any screen to date--the hurricane. Those shots of stupendous seas and wind and the devastation which they cause to the island and its inhabitants cannot adequately be described. After seeing "Hurricane" one feels that one has been...
...small outrigger canoe he made the 600-mile voyage from Tahiti to Manukura, his native island, where willing hands hid him. heads were put together to plan his escape, with his wife and child, to a safe refuge. Just as everything was ready, the unattractively upright French Administrator got wind of the plot. Thinking Terangi had already left the island, he put off to sea after him. Not many hours later, the hurricane...
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