A Girl in Every Port
About A Girl in Every Port
Spike Madden keeps an address book of women in port. In each one he finds a heart-shaped charm with an anchor, left by a sailor who got there first. He catches up with that sailor, Salami. They fight, fall in the water, and Salami pulls Spike out. They ship together. In France Spike falls for Marie. Salami has known her for years and warns him off. They sail on.
Cast & crew
More about A Girl in Every Port
Howard Hawks wrote the story and directed. James Kevin McGuinness and Seton I. Miller are credited as writers. L. William O'Connell photographed it. Ralph Dixon edited. William Fox produced it. Fox opened it at the Roxy in New York on February 22, 1928. Wikipedia gives 78 minutes for the copy now shown. AFI lists 64 minutes and 5,500 feet. Victor McLaglen plays Spike Madden. Robert Armstrong plays Salami. Louise Brooks plays Marie.
Themes
Making
The heart-and-anchor charm is how Spike knows Salami has already been in each port.
Look
L. William O'Connell shot the ports and the boat work off Santa Cruz Island.
Preservation
A print is at the George Eastman House. The circulating copy is shorter than the port list in the reviews.
Notes
- The 78-minute copy leaves out chapters with women in Liverpool, a South Sea island, Singapore, and Bombay.
- Hawks shot boat scenes on a trip to Santa Cruz Island.
- The Roxy's opening day took in $29,463.
- Fox remade the story in 1931 as Goldie, with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow.
- A print is at the George Eastman House. A DVD-R came out in 2002.
Scenes
- Spike finds the same anchor charm on woman after woman.
- Salami pulls him out of the water and they ship together.
Influenced
- Goldie (1931)
