I Cover the Waterfront (United Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this...
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