Jack Young

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

루스벨트 대통령의 초대를 받아 백악관에 간 코핸은 지난날을 회상한다. 그는 유년시절에 가족의 보드빌에서 잘난 체하는 아이 역할을 맡아 연기한다. 그 후 그는 단독으로 나설 결심을 하고 작가이자 제작자인 샘 해리스와 손을 잡는다. 'Little Johnny Jones'로 브로드웨이에서 성공리에 첫 공연을 마친 코핸은 연기지망생인 매력적인 여인, 메리와 행복한 결혼을 한다. 제1차 세계대전 중에 그는 전쟁의 비공식적인 성가 'Over There'를 쓰면서 절정에 달한다.그러나 부모님과 누이의 죽음을 겪고 은퇴를 시도하나 결국'I'd Rather Be Right'로 성공적으로 브로드웨이에 컴백한다.