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"HER KISSES WERE MOCKERY!"

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Top Cast

  • Chester Morris

    Chester Morris

    John Hawks

  • Thelma Todd

    Thelma Todd

    Alison Corning

  • Fred Kohler

    Fred Kohler

    Big John

  • Ned Sparks

    Ned Sparks

    Slim

  • Emmett Corrigan

    Emmett Corrigan

    Stephen Corning

  • William Austin

    William Austin

    Richard Bentinck

  • Frank McHugh

    Frank McHugh

    'Chub' Hopping

  • Frank Rice

    Frank Rice

    Fish Face

  • Mayo Methot

    Mayo Methot

    Sophie

Overview

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Rating

4.4 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Jun 13, 2022

    Aside from a rather silly underlying premiss, this makes for quite an entraining little thriller. Handsome, but wooden, Chester Morris is "John", a football-star graduate who arrives on Wall St. with a bit of a conscience. That isn't what his unscrupulous boss "Corning" (Emmett Corrigan), nor his rather grasping daughter want. Rather than compromise his sense of decency, he decides to beat them at their own game by diverting illicit liquor being smuggled into the country. Errol Flynn, he isn't - and the backdrop photography is poor, but the story moves along quite well with half decent efforts from Thelma Todd as the daughter ("Alison") and from Fred Kohler as the kingpin "Big John". The story is nicely circular, what goes around comes around - little jeopardy but some fun escapades and the opportunity for us to sit back and enjoy it's simplicity. Not a film anyone will remember, but an adequate way to kill 75 minutes.

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