George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, Mitchell Lewis, Guy Oliver, May Foster, Lillian Worth, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Richard Alexander, George Irving, John Kelly, Charles McMurphy, Bob Reeves
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
This is a beautiful example of the film-makers craft. Josef von Sternberg and Harold Rosson have created a thing of aesthetic beauty coupled with an interesting - if not especially deep - character study of two people George Bancroft ("Bill") and Betty Compson ("Mae)". The camera loves both of them - and interestingly for the late 1920s, it is not shy in illustrating the beauty of the male physiqu...