After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
W 1834 roku Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), zepsuty i rozwiązły syn magnata żeglugowego, zostaje zamustrowany na Pilgrim, jednen ze statków ojca. Wyrusza w długą, niezwykle trudną podróż morską. Jednostką dowodzi bezwzględny kapitan Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva).
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.