A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father’s ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional…