On the High Seas is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by Irvin Willat and written by Edward Sheldon and E. Magnus Ingleton.

The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Mitchell Lewis, Winter Hall, Michael Dark, Otto Brower, and William Boyd.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine review,[4] while returning from East Asia, the ship S.S. Andren catches fire.

Leone Deveraux is rescued by stokers Jim Dorn and Joe Polack, and the three cast off in a small boat.

After three days, they sight a plague ship derelict, throw the corpses overboard, and make themselves at home.