The NonStop Flight (1926)

In 1906 Sweden Captain Lars Larson Knute Erickson goes on a sea voyage leaving his wife Marcella Daly behind expecting their first child Unbeknownst to him while he is at sea a bitter rival kidnaps her and makes it look as though she left him willingly When he returns and discovers their home abandoned he all but goes mad with bitterness and rage destroying their home In the years that follow Larson becomes a sadistic drunken reprobate of the sea working for smugglers carrying all kinds of illegal cargo including drugs and human cargo