Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
George O'Brien
as Henry Potter
Dorothy Mackaill
as Marcelle
Cyril Chadwick
as Captain Trevelan
Ralph Lewis
as Thomas Potter
Emily Fitzroy
as Aunt Isabel
Harvey Clark
as Charles Reisling
Edward Peil Sr.
as Sam Shu Sin
David Kirby
as Gibson
James Gordon
as Captain Gallon
Walter Wilkinson
as Henry Potter (at age 4)
Winston Miller
as Henry Potter (at age 12)
