An engrossing film adaptation of Somerset Maugham's novel featuring an outstanding cast of supporting players. Fairbanks plays a young Englishman who commits a murder in Australia and is sent out to sea by his powerful father, Kolker, in the hopes that the furor over the crime will die
down. Kolker entrusts his son to craggy old skipper Hohl, who drinks heavily to numb the pain of the cancer that slowly consumes him. Fairbanks and Hohl become friends, and at one port of call they acquire Digges, an opium-smoking defrocked physician who comes along for the ride. After braving
some violent South Seas storms, the trio stop at a tiny island and are invited to dinner by...
Released:
1933
Rated:
NR
Length:
71 mins