Nightclub singer Della Mason (
Judith Allen)witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm (
Harry Carey), a woman-hater, and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China. Della is discovered by Jim Benton (
Milburn Stone, the ship's first mate and he pleads her case to the captain. He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie (
Jane Jones)at "Minnie's Joint in Shanghai, until her innocence can be established.
—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>