A story that only Eugene O'Neill could tell! The greatest of America's playwrights and the most gifted of directors bring you the mightiest sea drama ever filmed...played by a brilliant cast!
DRAMA of the men who go down to the sea in ships!
LOADED WITH DYNAMITE! This mighty drama of the sea...a story of primitive human joys and hatreds as only Eugene O'Neill could write it! (Print Ad-Pawtucket Times, ((Pawtucket, RI)) 5 December 1940)
The Love of Women in Their Eyes...THE SALT OF THE SEA IN THEIR BLOOD!
The searing loves and primitive hatreds of the men who live by the sea! (1948 reissue poster)