The supporting cast includes Wallace Beery, Jim Tully, Leila Hyams, and Polly Moran.

MGM produced a Spanish language version of this film, Love in Every Port, starring Jose Crespo and Conchita Montenegro.

[1] The film follows three merchant marine sailors—Jack, Tripod and Ginger—back and forth between their home port of London and the seaports of the world, drinking, brawling, gambling, pursuing prostitutes (actually anything in a skirt), fighting a fire aboard ship and each other, and signing on a new vessel as soon as they have spent their pay.

Jack has dozens of girls in every port, but in London he meets his match in Joan, who works in the Shipping Office.

Tripod appears with a woman and grabs Joan hard, by her arms to make her stay.

When they return to her room, he tells her he lied: There is no job, and his ship, The Chinese Star, sails on the evening tide.

She tears up the marriage certificate, furious that he was willing to ruin her whole life for a few minutes of pleasure.

The storm worsens, The Chinese Star is nearby and coming to pieces, all lifeboats gone.

Joan and Jack reconcile and he sweeps her up in his arms and rushes through the crowd crying “Way[2] for the sailor!” In his December 13, 1930 review in The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall observed that in “John Gilbert's long-delayed second talking film, …he gives a better performance than he did in his previous audible production.

The story is a strange mixture of low comedy and unconvincing romance, with Mr. Beery walking off with what honors are to be had.

…glimpses of the work aboard freighters, the rescuing of men from a sinking vessel and other such views are infinitely more interesting than the actual domgs of the characters…”[3]