After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous

Credits

Georg TresslerDirector

Horst BuchholzPhilip Gale, Amerikanischer Seeman

Mario AdorfLawski, Polnischer Kohlenschlepper

Helmut SchmidMartin, Heizer auf der Yorikke

Alf MarholmKapitän der Yorikke