Not really anyone to root for. Roman was lovely but had no other reason to appear in the plot. (Except, I guess, that there's a similar character in Jack London's The Sea Wolf from which this story is adapted. Massey had fun playing the tyrant, but his character made no sense—especially how he refused to kill his enemies until the plot was done with them. Clark, as the closest thing to a hero, pretty much spent the entire movie getting beat up.