Girl Overboard

Girl Overboard (1929)

A Smashingly Dramatic and Colorful Picture of a Girl Adrift Among Dock rats.

A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.

Date of release
1929-07-28
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Wesley Ruggles

Casting

Interesting facts

Girl Overboard is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Mary Philbin. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures.

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