WAIPAWA THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 3

WAIPAWA THEATRE

"Prisoner of Shark Island" With a sweep of realistic power probably never before approached by motxon pictures, ; 29th. Century Fox brings to the screen in ''The Prisoner of Shark Island, " showing at Waipawa to-hight and Monday, the tr-ue' story of the most tragic figure in America's history. He is Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, ' long. condemned as one of the Lincoln conspirators, and who now, in tho liglxt of facts rovealed in the pieture, appears as a mau unjustly sentenced to a living death. Warrier Baxter is the leading player of this drama, . which opens after the Civi] War with the lassassination of Lincoln. John VVilkes Booth, wliose leg was brolcen in the leap to the stage, flees into Maryland to reeeive aid from a smiple country doetor. When the fury of the nation over this crime is unleashed, Baxter is arrested, tried with Booth 's accomplices and sent to an unknown fate on Shark Island, a fortressprison on a sun-baked reef in the Caribbean. Passionately hated by ihe men who guard him, degraded, beaten, chained to his cell, Baxter attempts to escape, but is recaptured. With the niedical officer sick, and yellow fever raging, the couiiuander of tho garrisou turos lo Baxter as bjs last dcHperafe resort. How he copep with rebcllinus soldiers, forces t'earful ship captajng (o bring hira sqpplies, gnd finajly wins the gratitude ?f, tlie men of Shark Island and frecdom for hiuiself is revcaled iu ihe astoundiug, actiou-iilJed' cliniax o* the picture.