Alec Austen (Alan Ladd), a Quaker working for an advertising agency, and its chief art director, Susan Cahill (Dianne Foster), are about to marry when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and he is drafted. Assigned to the USS
Poe as a gunnery officer, Alec immediately becomes friendly with
Frenchy Shapiro (William Bendix), a tough-talking sailor whose vulnerability is visible only to his best pals. Lieutenant Commander Edge (Keenan Wynn), a hard-bitten patriot who hates the world and is secretly hooked on morphine, finds out about Austen's pacifist beliefs and chides him about them,
loudly predicting that when the chips are down, Austen will fail to come throug...
Released:
1958
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins