Min is the owner of small hotel at a dock area. One of her guests is Bill, a fisherman. Min raises Nancy since her mother took off. Nancy works all day and has never gone to school. The police one day comes to inspect her condition and demands that she go to school. They offer to place her with a well-to-do family.
Well-made melodrama, with several memorable sequences. Although the plot is not exactly realistic, and leans toward sentimentality, the film is very realistic in ambience and mise-en-scene.
It's number 8 in Dale Thomajan's Top Nine for 1930.
Rating: 55 [I should see it again sometime, for a better understanding of the dialogue.]
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