軍隊という管理下に置かれた人間のやりきれない気持ちをコメディ・タッチで描いたアメリカンニューシネマの佳作。基地の募金箱から40ドルぽっちを盗もうとした罪で8年の実刑が決まったダメ水兵を下士官2人が休暇気分で護送することになる。3人はやがて奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていくが……。
A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to ensure that sailors on shore leave do not become too rowdy, and to provide help to sailors in need of assistance. Carl is married to a local girl and their relationship is at breaking point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland. With his brother-in-law Willie, who is already estranged from his wife and under threat of redundancy from his shipyard job, the two men forge a friendship to help each other through.