Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery),known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better, as evidenced by his handling of a woman he has abducted, together with her baby daughter, Mary (Sally Blaine),from seaman Newman (Willard Robertson). When the woman dies as a result of his cruelty, he brings up Mary as his own daughter.

• Columbia Pictures
• Richard Cromwell
• Sally Blane
• Noah Beery
• Willard Robertson
• Sidney Bracey
• Richard Alexander