sentences:  The screenplay was written by Ted Shane based on the novel "All the Brothers Were Valiant" by Ben Ames Williams.This was the second film based on this novel; the first was "All the Brothers Were Valiant" (1923, now lost), and it was remade again in 1953 as "All the Brothers Were Valiant".In 1857, Joel Shore (Ramon Novarro), the carefree youngest son of a seafaring family, has a flirtatious friendship with Priscilla Crowninshield (Joan Crawford), and he eventually falls in love with her.