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The film's thriller plot, about a man trying to save his daughters from white slavers in the middle of the Pacific, may be ancient and hoary by today's standards, and some of the racial stereotypes are difficult to take, but otherwise this is a nicely representative melodrama of the late silent era. Director Emory Johnson knows how to keep his story moving forward at a good clip, and the editing is nice and tight as well. And then there's the topical edge, the verisimilitude of the navy flight across the Pacific, and the beautifully staged storm and shipwreck sequences to add to the interest. The whole film is an exercise in nostalgia today on many levels, most notably for the period when hardly any pages had been written in the book about long-distance flight, and it was still a source of wonder for audiences.