| Mr Donkin, a retired dockworker, was looking after the siblings while his daughter Andrea Smith, 40, and her husband James Smith, 31, went out for a meal. |
| Perhaps inevitably, the plot is thin: a turn-of-the-twentieth-century immigrant gets tricked into prostitution and a dockworker tries to save her. |
| The comic drama tells the story of a mild-mannered Irish dockworker living in a British settlement in India who is transformed into an exemplary soldier. |
| I was a dockworker, but I was a little of all that. |
| Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen? |
