John Barrymore (Romeo and Juliet, Dinner at Eight) stars as an 18th-century swashbuckling hero who escapes from a French prison ship and risks everything for the love of a worthless woman. Co-starring Barrymores real-life love, Dolores Costello (The Magnificent Ambersons), and Warner Oland (Charlie Chan films). Based upon the classic novel, Manon Lescaut, by Abbe Prevost.