MUNICIPAL THEATRE
"ESCAPE FROM DEVIL'S ISLAND" The dreaded Devil's Island, painted in fact and fiction as the hell-hole of the tropies, serves as the locale for a highly exciting melodrama called ' ' Escape from Devil 's Island, ' ' a new Columbia film which sCreens to-night at the Municipal Theatre. Vietor Jory is seen as an adventurous international spy who escapes a sentence to Devil's . Island only to go there voluntarily in a mad attempt to free his compatriot-in-crime and the father of his sweetheart, Florence Rice. Stanley Andrews, the old convict, includes Norman Foster, a TQung, falsely -condemned prisoner, in the escape plans. A strange love triangle of confused royalties results when Fbster ineets and falls in love with Florenee Rice, though he is aware of her relationship with the man respoasible for his freedom. The romantic •therae takes a tragic turn, climaxed by a novei aofl excitirg denouemect. Jory. Hice, and Foster do splendily in thoii respective voles. The second attraction ia "Law Beyond the Range," a Western adventure story with the popular Tim McCoy in the chief role.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 5
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178MUNICIPAL THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 32, 22 February 1937, Page 5
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