Hell's Island (1930)
Directed by Edward H. Sloman
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces that he plans to marry her. The argument is quite heated and in the ensuing scuffle one of them is shot and wounded. He believes the other did it. It was actually their sergeant who did it, and when he refuses to help out, the accused man punches him out. For hitting an officer, the pugilist is sentenced to Devil's Island. In order to be near her true love, the woman convinces the other to marry her. She then has him get a job as a guard at the notorious prison. It is there that the man realizes his buddy did not shoot him. He then helps him escape with the woman.
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ambulance, America, battle [war], conflict, escape, foreign-legion, France, friendship, help, imprisonment-false, island, love, love-triangle, marriage, prison, prison-guard, security-guard, sergeant, shoot-out, wound [injury], grave
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