Moore Marriott is the head of a family in the life-boat service, along with wife Anita Graham and sons Ray Milland and Bruce Gordon. Milland pulls Mona Goya from a wreck. She's fine, though he is badly injured, and his marriage to Eugeni Amami has to be delayed until he recovers. When he does, Miss Goya is there to hire the family boat for beach parties at which she takes time from guests to vamp the brothers. They get into a fight over her, and Gordon is killed. A tsimmis ensues.
Visually it's pure late silent. In terms of sound.... well, there's an opening sequence in which the simple seafolk are partying and singing old tunes, and it's clearly meant to show off what British International Pictures can do with sound as long as people are not expected to be moving about. Once that's done, however, the films takes a turn towards awful. Marriott is all right in a dramatic turn, Milland is adequate -- although something is seriously wrong with his voice. After that, the performances are terrible, speaking their words slowly and in a manner that suggests they are more interested in enunciating clearly than any emotional weight. Given the cut-rate Erda plot centering around Miss Goya, there's little to recommend this movie except to Milland completists.
