Sea Legs (1930)

Searchlight Doyle lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette an island republic as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a 2 million inheritance a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski All his shipmates except Hyacinth Nitouche assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be Doyle falls in love with Adrienne the most beautiful of the captains daughters and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop Admiral OBrien grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating comes to visit and mistaking him for a civilian Doyle throws him overboard and to everybodys surprise is complimented on his vigilance But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors and he is suspected of killing young OBrien he is cleared of suspicion however and is reinstated by the admiral thereby gaining Adriennes love