Port of Missing Girls (1938)

Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime Escaping from the gangster she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm a womanhater and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China Della is discovered by Jim Benton the ships first mate and he pleads her case to the captain He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie at Minnies Joint in Shanghai until her innocence can be established