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Those who attend the University Theater this week to see Edward G. Robinson, cast as Mike, the Portagee, in "Tiger Shark," will hardly be too disappointed. Robinson is the great character actor of Hollywood at present, and the movie magnates are exploiting his good name to the full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture...
...fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward. Surprised to see a swordfish so close to land, they pursued it. Soon they saw the reason. Behind it was a school of sharks. As they watched, the swordfish turned, attacked one of its pursuers. The sharks surrounded it, cutting off its flight. No sooner had the swordfish beaten off one shark than another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while...
Fine game for fishermen, the broadbill swordfish frequently runs afoul of sharks. Two years ago Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt...
...Tiger Shark (Warner Bros.) is a bloody cinema of tuna fishing in trawlers out of Southern California's San Diego. Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into...
...Spitfire's muscles used that jaw as a fulcrum to throw his teeth and claws into action, anywhere, against this strange enemy. Somehow the leopard swung himself around the shark's head . . . quickly discovering two vulnerable resting places for his terrible claws-one under the shark's right eye, which Spitfire ripped out-the other in an opening in the gills, which he clawed through with a single gouging sweep. . . ." The shark let go, but before Spitfire could escape another shark got him, and the last Mr. Buck saw of him they were tearing him to pieces...