Marshall Neilan has hired a fine posse of actors and made an all-talking picture of skullduggery on the San Francisco waterfront — fog, a mystery ship and a skulking fiend named Larabee, who is intent on killing off practically the whole cast, dress suits and all. Some thrills and chills, a slow lot of mediocre dialogue, and action confined almost entirely to the cabin of the ship. Good performances by Robert Ames, Frank Reicher, Mary Brian and especially James Kirkwood, as the arch-villain. Even a theme song, "Black Waters," and it is a little better than the film.