El monstruo de los mares

In Newfoundland, where they still go a-whaling, Dennis Morgan and Steffi Duna are in love. He's a great harpooner. When he loses his right arm, though, he feels useless and Miss Duna falls in love with his brother, Douglas Walton.

The visuals are good in this cheap picture, and the story is a sound one -- goodness knows it's been done ten thousand times. However, the performances are utterly discordant, and the reasons are obvious: Morgan speaks in the same sort of accents that he will for the next twenty years, Walton, as his brother, speaks in the fake-English style of stage folks, and Miss Duna's Hungarian accent is unmistakable -- and she is supposed to be a Portuguese girl named Rosita Gonzales!

It's the sort of sloppiness that the short budgets of Gower Gulch producers couldn't afford to fix. All they could do was hope that when it got to the audiences, no one would notice. Well, I noticed.