

A tuna boat, a dame, and a typhoon walk into a bar...
Captain Biff Brown owns a boat used to ferry prisoners from the mainland to Alcatraz. The police find some escape tools on his boat and, although Brown isn't involved, his contract is terminated and he goes back to tuna fishing. Brown takes his friend Sanderson to his boarding house and introduces him to his sweetheart Madge Harris and Sanderson also falls in love with her. A gang headed by Red Mason and trying to escape the country bribe Brown's engineer, Venatti, and are hiding on the boat the next time Brown and Sanderson take it out. They take over the boat but a storm is approaching...
Practical Effects
Real studio tank waves that actually slap
Acting
Richard Lane's gruff sea captain schtick

Director
Lew Landers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lew Landers directed over 100 B-pictures; this was one of eight films he released in 1947 alone.
Alcatraz ferry boats were real contract work in the 1940s, making this oddly grounded for such lurid pulp.