Way for a sailor / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures ; director, Sam Wood ; scenario and dialogue by Laurence Stallings and W.L. River ; additional dialogue by Charles MacArthur and Al Boasberg.
John Gilbert (Jack); Wallace Beery (Tripod); Jim Tully (Ginger); Leila Hyams (Joan); Polly Moran (Polly); Doris Lloyd (Flossy). Based on the novel Way of a sailor, by Albert Richard Wetjen, first published in New York in 1928. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930 Credits from OCLC original film cataloging and from container.
Summary:
"Jack, a sailor, along with his buddies Tripod and Ginger, feels himself an indomitable force until he falls for Joan, who repeatedly repels his advances every time he comes into port, and only after a number of years is he able to see her alone. Finally he wins her and they are married, but Joan, learning he plans to return to the sea, leaves him. Later, having become a quartermaster on an ocean liner, he finds her still unforgiving; then a storm wrecks the ship on which all are traveling, and to her grief he is lost with Tripod and Ginger, but the trio is rescued by a whaling vessel and returned to port. After receiving Jack's message, Joan, having realized her true feelings, is reunited with him"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930.
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