Charles Compton

Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.

C'est l'histoire d'un bâtiment de guerre, le destroyer britannique HMS Torrin, depuis sa mise en chantier avant la déclaration de guerre conjointe de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France à l'Allemagne, jusqu'à sa destruction à la suite des attaques aériennes allemandes. Les survivants, accrochés à un bateau pneumatique de sauvetage, se souviennent de leur vie passée.

Big Jim Garrity, a mine superintendent, is falsely accused of murder by a dope doctor and is forced into exile in Europe. After several years, he has made a fortune and returns to the U.S. under an assumed name. He makes his way into society, where he falls in love with the girl whose brother he is accused of murdering.

Unbeknownst to each other, Charles Macklin and his widowed father Arthur are having an affair with an exotic dancer called The Sphinx. When both come to see her at the same time, Charles gets upset, denounces the Sphinx, and is knocked out by Arthur. Arthur then decides to marry the Sphinx, while Charles then resumes his affair with Frances, to whom he was engaged before he met the Sphinx.