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'The story tells how a man, on being apprehended by the police for murder, smuggles himself on board a boat, and is not located until the vessel reaches a distant port. He is about to be placed under arrest, when he dives overboard into a sea infested by sharks. He disappears, and is given up for lost, and subsequently the real author of the crime confesses The fight with the sharks under sea is graphically depicted.'
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'Bohemia', Brisbane Courier, 24 November 1923, p.17. (Via Trove Australia)
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Contemporary newspapers drew a parallel between the film and a crime some months earlier, 'when a man named Morrison murdered the dupe whom he was endeavoring to swindle at cards', escaped via steam liner, leapt overboard into shark-infested water when he was about to be arrested, and was subsequently found not to have committed the crime ('Startling News - A Sensational Murder', The Mirror, 12 January 1918, p.13).
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