Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Acting
Ida Lupino out-charms two mountains of testosterone.
Direction
Stoloff keeps the brawls brisk and the banter snappy.
Director
Benjamin Stoloff
Victor McLaglen
Steve Webb
Preston Foster
Michael 'Mike' O'Shea
Ida Lupino
Doris Malone
Donald Woods
Steve Webb
Helen Flint
Sadie Bennett
Gordon Jones
Puggy
Pierre Watkin
USS Taroe Commander
Murray Alper
Seaman Brown
Billy Gilbert
Billy
Jonathan Hale
Court-Martial President (uncredited)
Theodore von Eltz
Court Martial Prosecutor (uncredited)
Charles Lane
Judge (uncredited)
Ralph Byrd
Court-Martial Seaman (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
Miss McGonigle - Librarian (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Ida Lupino's breakout year—she'd soon defect to directing and become Hollywood's only female filmmaker of the 1950s.
Victor McLaglen and Preston Foster reportedly improvised several barroom brawls, exhausting three stuntmen in one afternoon.
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