McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

• Universal Pictures
• Joel McCrea
• Andrea Leeds
• Frank Jenks
• Dorothea Kent
• Isabel Jeans
• Virginia Grey
• Grant Mitchell
• Henry Mollison