Starring Jeff Chandler
with George Nader, Lex Barker

Jeff Chandler as the ambitious Captain of a small transport ship is determined to make his inexperienced crew the best in the fleet-but somehow fails to take the enemy into account.
Set in the South Pacific during World War II, the film includes some unusually effective and exciting battle scenes, but avoids the sentiment and over-stressed patriotism of many similar films. Jeff Chandler is convincing as the disciplinarian captain with Lex Barker of Tarzan fame as the lazy, aristocratic and ineffectual administrative chief, and George Nader, who served in the American Navy during the war, as the First Officer.