After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Adaptación del diario homónimo de Richard Henry Dana Jr., un estudiante de Harvard que relata las durísimas experiencias vividas durante una travesía en barco como marinero desde el Cabo de Hornos hasta California.
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.