Academy Award winner James Cagney stars with Pat O'Brien and Titanic star Gloria Stuart! Sailor Chester J. O'Connor (Cagney--Yankee Doodle Dandy) realizes he picked the wrong man in the dance hall to pick a fight with when he gets assigned to Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin's (O'Brien--Knute Rockne - All American) ship. Martin makes it his life's work to make O'Connor's life miserable -- until O'Connor risks his life to save his shipmates.