A better-than-average melodrama. Powell is a convict being transported from Hong Kong to San Quentin to be executed for murder, and stylish Francis is a young woman dying of heart disease. They meet on board a ship heading to San Francisco and fall in love. McHugh and MacMahon supply comic
relief as the matchmakers who keep San Francisco cop Hymer temporarily out of the way of the lovers. The haunting quality that pervades the tale of the doomed lovers is unusual for the assembly-line programming Warner Bros. churned out in the early 1930s. Part of this was due to the leisurely way
its two stars went about their business in a film only 69 minutes long. Another fact...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
69 mins