William A. Seiter (If You Could Only Cook) brings top-talent Columbia stars Glenn Ford (The Big Heat, Human Desire) and Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking, Double Indemnity) into conflict as competing crewmen on a World War II Naval vessel. Robinson is Steve Boleslavski, the re-enlisted veteran sailor whose seniority displaces the younger Mickey Donohue (Ford) as Chief Boatswain's Mate. The hard-driving, perfectionist old sail
