El estricto capitán Queeg (Bogart), un hombre aquejado de agotamiento nervioso y fobias neuróticas, asume el mando del Caine, un dragaminas norteamericano cuya tripulación carece de disciplina. En contra de la opinión de los demás oficiales, introduce cambios y toma medidas tan arbitrarias que la tripulación empieza a considerarlo un neurótico peligroso. Durante una tempestad, Queeg pierde el control de la nave; entonces, el segundo oficial lo obliga a dejar el mando y lo releva. Este incidente dará lugar a un consejo de guerra.
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
