During the war, Captain Winters (Alan Hale) commandeered an ocean liner
that was sunk by a German submarine - and now, in the employ of crooked
lawyer Sykes (Clarence Wilson), he goes diving for the safe aboard the
ocean liner ... together with Captain Ludwig (Peter Erkelenz), the very
man who commandeered the submarine back in the war. Eventually, Winters
finds out what Sykes' game is, to cheat bar owner Evelyn (Laura LA Plante)
out of her inheritance with a (fake?) will that is in the safe, and
somehow, he wants to hook up with her but doesn't know how. Also, he wants
to have his revenge on Ludwig - but for some reason, Ludwig is on Evelyn's
side as well. The crew of Winters' current ship though switches
allegiances every few minutes, and after Winters and Ludwig have defeated
Sykes, who has taken over Winters' ship, the crew returns to Witners'
side. Then he dukes it out with Ludwig and almost kills him, until he
learns that Ludwig has lost his own wife when sinking Winters' ocean
liner, who was on board that ship, and figures he has suffered enough, so
he forces Sykes, who is also justice of peace, to get himself married to
Evelyn (which comes out of the blue) before he has Sykes thrown overboard. Rather
badly written high seas drama that seems to be pretty clueless which
direction to go to, plotwise, and thus seems to be rather incoherent and
made up from isolated plot pieces rather than a well thought-through
story. Add to that Claud Allister as a most annoying comic relief of the British
eccentric-variety, and you are left with pretty little. A forgotten
film that deserves to remain forgotten, acutally.
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