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Killers of the Sea shows Caswell wrestling and subduing a 12-ft. bottle-nosed killer whale, a gigantic snapping sea turtle, an octopus, a sawfish and a tiger shark. There are many repetitions of the dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Since June 1935, Prosecutor Dewey had brought 52 loan shark and prostitution racketeers to trial, sent every one to prison. But those convictions had been incidental to his major objective. After 18 months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Major Crushing | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris. Ely was studying the social sciences at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Politiques but seemed more determined to become a boulevardier and bridge shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brother Sasha | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Prisoner of Shark Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bests | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...reproachfully questioned by Ramona's homely protectress, along comes Filipe (Kent Taylor), Ramona's other lover, and promises to be a satisfactory compensation. If these broad outlines leave you cold, you may still be affected by the sight of John Carradine, that lean, relentless fiend from "The Prisoner of Shark's Island", dragging along the futilely resisting Ramona as he goes to pump three bullcts into the helpless Alessandro, for having taken his (the American's) horse in a desperate effort to save the life of his baby...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

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