It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation, which later remade it as Goldie in 1931, with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow.

He has a little address book full of sweethearts, but everywhere he goes, he finds that someone has been there before him, leaving behind with each girl a heart-shaped charm with an anchor inscribed on it.

In Central America, he takes a dislike to another sailor, Salami (Armstrong), but before they can settle their differences, they brawl with the police and are thrown in jail.

When they dock, Salami has to stay aboard due to a toothache and worries that Spike will get into trouble without him.

She makes it clear that she would very much like to renew their relationship, but he is not interested, nor does he want to hurt Spike by telling him the truth.

One night, she sends Spike on an errand so she can visit Salami, whom she finds asleep in bed.

Characters talk very tersely in Hawks films, refusing to put their thoughts and feelings into explicit speeches which would either sentimentalize or vulgarize those internal abstractions.

Howard Hawks went on to direct many notable movies, including, Bringing Up Baby, Sergeant York (nominated for Best Director), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Rio Bravo.

He laughed like hell, and he sat up all night making a splint out of a tomato can so that I could go shooting with him the next morning.

McBride then asks of Hawks: "Was the finger business in A Girl in Every Port supposed to be a gesture of friendship?

The song had recently been written by an officer and adopted by Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard.

[7] The 78-minutes currently available version omits chapters with girls in Liverpool, a South Sea Island, Singapore and Bombay.

The Film Daily reported in March 1928 that the feature had broken the "world's record" for a single day's box office receipts at the Roxy Theater in New York, when it grossed $29,463.00 on Washington's Birthday.