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.
| Directing | Archie Mayo | Director |
| Production | Joe Pasternak | Producer |
| Writing | Myles Connolly | Screenplay |
| Writing | Eliot Gibbons | Story |
