The Salvation Hunters

Directed by Josef von Sternberg

With George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson and Nellie Bly Baker

A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.