One of three films Hitchcock made in 1931 is my favourite of the oddities he produced between his sound breakthrough with Blackmail in 1929 and his crystallisation as the Master of Suspense with The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1934.
A married couple bored with suburbia and the rat race come into money and take a cruise around the world in search of excitement before concluding... that they are happy to be a boring suburban couple! Joan Barry is quite appealing as the wife, but Henry Kendall is a bit of a disaster as her spouse.
Its main interest is scene where a Chinese sailor gets a foot trapped in a rope and is slowly lowered into the sea to drown (yet another man in Hitchcock falling to his death) while the rest of the crew passively observe. It is perhaps the most shocking, eerie and bizarre scene in any of his films.
As with The Ring (1927), Hitch had greater control over story development, and again it flopped. It is his strangest film. Although a talkie, much of it is silent, and features title cards. It evades genre definition, being too desolate for comedy. The film has an atmosphere unlike any other he made, it's mood not so much one of suspense, but of sadness. It is unique among his work.