I think this is the Alfred Hitchcock silent movie I like least. The story is about the daughter (Betty Balfour) of a champagne tycoon (Gordon Harker), whose father refuses permission that she marry her boyfriend (Jean Bradin). She flies her father's plane to meet her boyfriend who is on a yacht going to France. Her boyfriend has sea sickness and she meets a mysterious stranger (Ferdinand Von Allen). She receives a telegram from her father who warns her about marrying him, so she proposes to him. They argue over her having asked for his hand. He later regrets this and looks for her to apologize, and finds her playing chess with the stranger, so they quarrel again. The father meets them in France, and announces the family fortune has been lost. The boyfriend leaves and the father thinks he is only interested in money. The daughter is robbed and consequently they are destitute and father and daughter take a dilapidated apartment. Boyfriend returns again to apologize and she rebukes him saying she is going to take a job. She works in a restaurant where she sees the mysterious man who hands her a note to contact him if she is in need. The boyfriend does not approve of the job and they argue again. Her father also does not approve and says it was a ruse his having lost the family money. She is mad at both her father and boyfriend, but the mysterious stranger pays for her trip back to America. Turns out the mysterious an works for her father to keep her safe. The boyfriend, unaware of this decides to attack him but father intervenes to say he no longer objects to the wedding. Our couple of love birds now argue about the wedding arrangments as the movie ends.
This movie flounders because it really doesn't have much to say.
