This brings together several of our old friends, stalwarts of movies of this period: Chester Morris, Victor McLaglen, Jean Rogers, Amelita Ward and Veda Ann Borg. Morris and Rogers own a diving salvage company. He arranges to get the entire outfit into the army as a unit. She is in love with him, but he watched her grow up and still considers her a kid. McLaglen is a ladies' man (imagine that!), and Morris manages to keep stealing his girls. Finally, he sets his cap for Borg and pops the question. She has been wanting to catch a millionaire, but she isn't sure about it. Morris runs into her in a nightclub and moves in (naturally). She is ready to marry Morris. Suddenly Rogers shows up. She is now a WAC. Morris breaks his date with Borg and goes out with Rogers. McLaglen sees a picture of Morris and Borg and they fight. The MPs come rushing in, and they are thrown in jail. The commander chews them out, but overlooks the fight because they are needed on the ship.
They reach their destination, and are assigned to clear an island harbor of a sunken ship. It is on a shelf. While McLaglen is under water planting charges to move the ship, Jap planes move in. An explosion sends the ship over the shelf, pulling McLaglen with it. They get the planes, but he is trapped below, with his airflow restricted. He tells the captain to cut his line and get away, but Morris volunteers to go down and cut him loose. (There are some great shots of McLaglen in his diver's helmet struggling for air.)
When they get back home, they are eating dinner at Rogers' home. McLaglen says he has sworn off dames forever. Morris gets him that he will fall for the first dame that walks in. Borg calls, and he dates her, then pays Morris the bet with stage money and rushes out.
They thrown in a really good barbershop quartet on shipboard, just for good measure.
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