The Mucker

Billy Byrne, a tough young thug from Chicago's West Side, is shanghaied onto a ship in The Mucker (1921). After a mutiny and a wreck, he is stranded on a Pacific island with Barbara Harding, a rich young woman, and the crew's cutthroats. Among the island's dangers are warriors descended from shipwrecked Japanese samurai. Byrne begins to change as his feelings for Barbara grow, though he doubts he will ever be good enough for her.

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