

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.

Joel McCrea
Joe Meadows

Andrea Leeds
Helen Brown

Frank Jenks
Frank Munson

Dorothea Kent
Jean

Isabel Jeans
Mrs. Merrivale

Virginia Grey
Madge

Grant Mitchell
Duke

Henry Mollison
Dunham

Brandon Tynan
Tad

Oscar O'Shea
Captain Walters

Granville Bates
Mr. Judd
Roger Davis
Floorwalker

Marion Martin
Girl on Beach

Olaf Hytten
Dunham's Butler

Willie Best
George

Catherine Proctor
Mrs. Aspitt
Yvonne Boisseau
Miss Beaton

Arthur Housman
First Communist

John Sheehan
Second Communist

Chester Clute
Salesman
Archie Mayo
Myles Connolly
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