San Francisco Docks

On the docks of San Francisco's waterfront Meredith is a longshoreman who's studying to be an aviation mechanic. He's in love with Hervey, the barmaid at a saloon owned by her father (Walburn). Meredith gets into a fight with Downing, who later turns up dead. Though the real murderer is Alcatraz escapee Pawley, Meredith is believed guilty and arrested for the crime. Only three men can prove he wasn't the killer and they are of no help since the trio comprises Pawley and the two longshoremen who aided his escape (Cording and Zelaya). Hervey, along with priest Armstrong, drunk Fitzgerald (who would win an Oscar in a few years with GOING MY WAY), and Walburn, tries to...