Ports of Call (1925)
1h
Running Time
January 4, 1925Release Date
Plot.
Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except little Peggy, Marjorie's kid sister. Marjorie pleads with Kirk to save the child, but he lacks the courage, and Randolph Sherman, Kirk's rival for Marjorie's affections, plays the hero part. For Kirk's public display of cowardice, he is disowned by his father and rejected by Marjorie, who soon marries Sherman. Kirk drifts to the South Seas, eventually landing in Manila, where he becomes a derelict. When Lillie, a fellow drifter, is roughly handled in a bar, Kirk goes to her assistance; she expresses appreciation for his bravery and soon effects his regeneration through her faith in him. Kirk and Lillie journey to the interior, and they obtain work on a plantation recently purchased by Randolph Sherman. During a native uprising, Sherman is killed, and Kirk saves Marjorie from certain death.
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Ports of Call is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Edmund Lowe, Hazel Keener, and William B. Davidson.A young man demonstrates his apparent cowardice in the face of a house fire. Consequently, he is disinherited by his father and rejected by his love interest. He becomes a wandering derelict, and eventually arrives in Manila. He befriends a woman at a saloon brawl, and is also reacquainted with his former love interest. But he has arrived at the start of a local revolt, and he has to prove his bravery to save his loved ones.