A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
Hobart Bosworth
as Jim Newman
Jacqueline Logan
as Mary Swope Newman
Richard Arlen
as John Shreve
Walter James
as Capt. Angus Swope
Fred Kohler
as First Mate Fitz
James Bradbury Sr.
as The Knitting Swede
Arthur Rankin
as Nils
Syd Crossley
as Cockney Bouncer
Frank Hemphill
as Second Mate
Chappell Dossett
as Rev. Richard Deaken
Blue Washington
as Negro
