Tugboat Annie

Annie Brennan (Marie Dressler) is a salty tugboat captain and Terry (Wallace Beery) is her hard-drinking first-mate husband. They support their son Alec (Robert Young) who rises to be the captain of a big ocean liner. Alec is dating Pat (Maureen O'Sullivan), the bosses' daughter. He wants his mother to retire. He gets his father a good job, but the drinking quickly loses the job. He tells Annie to leave Terry.

I am loving Marie Dressler. Wallace Beery is both the loveable lout and a problematic drunk. They make for quite a romance. There is the love and the difficulties. It's a marriage. It's not all roses and wine. The story has a bit of an expected melodramatic ending. It's obvious early on that Terry would come to the rescue for the ending. More than anything, I just love Dressler.