So this guy Doug Fairbanks is the first mate on a sailing ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these two get together and the "Dog Star" sails across the Atlantic. Steam all the way, mind you. That's about all there is to this "Rulers of the Sea" flick, and it's not enough. Sometimes the thing moves so slowly that you wish a good gust of wind would some around and help those engines along. Not that it isn't a hell of a lot more interesting than a History I exam. If you like good photographic shots of ships plowing into heavy scas and steel slithering on steel down below why you might even like this rather than just tolerate it.

"Day-Time Wife" is another average picture, and maybe two average pictures will do just as well as one good picture and a stinker. New the plot of this picture may not be very new, but you can see that it deals with a pretty important problem. Especially important to Linda Darnell--she's the wife--who doesn't think it's such a good idea to be a wife only during the day-time. That's only normal of course, and Ty Power was an ass not to realize it sooner than he did; but anyway the horse-play that develops around the three-quarters mark isn't half bad.