Murvyn Vye

While playing on a wrecked ship on the shoreline, a young boy meets a genie who magically transports him back in time to Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Two rascals leave Melbourne to avoid their weddings and take jobs as divers on an island where they fight for the affections of an exotic princess.

A widower, his son and a nightclub singer (abandoned by her husband), travel downstream for various reasons. En-route they begin to form their own surrogate family, which acts as a replacement for the broken homes they have left behind. Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe star.