Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Um relato dramatizado do papel dos barcos americanos PT na defesa das Filipinas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pouco depois de Pearl Harbor, um esquadrão de tripulantes de Torpedeiros PT na Filipinas tem de lutar contra a burocracia da Marinha entre escaramuças com os japoneses. O título diz tudo sobre a atitude da Marinha para com as PTs e suas tripulações.
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.