Miscast again in his second sound feature release, Gilbert plays a scruffy British merchant sailor who, with shipmates Beery and Tully, loves the liberty and licentiousness of his seafaring life. Smitten by shipping clerk Hyams, who pays him little notice and tends to stay upwind, Gilbert
finally bathes, shaves, and attires himself in a shorebound suit to pursue the courtship. After the wedding, he confesses that he lied to her about his dry-land job and they separate. The disconsolate Gilbert pulls himself together and becomes a ship's officer, complete with natty uniform. The
equally disconsolate Hyams, emigrating from Blighty to Canada, finds herself traveling o...
Released:
1930
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins