Opening card: "This is a story of New Orleans in 1860. The story of a violent love between a captain of the sea and a creole girl. New Orleans, at this time, was a city of fierce pride. Pride of blood, pride of name, and those endowed with both lived on St. Charles Street."
Opening credits appear in hand-turned pages of a thick hard-backed book. (In other prints, the credits are superimposed over shots of Captain Fabian's ship at sea).