"An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board."
Rock Hudson
as Captain David Bell
Cyd Charisse
as Charlotte King
Arthur Kennedy
as First Mate Ramsay
Leif Erickson
as Harry Hutton
Charles McGraw
as Yancy
Ernest Truex
as Rev. Butterfield
Richard Haydn
as Oliver Wiggins
Judith Evelyn
as Ethel Peacock
Wallace Ford
as Old Brown
Celia Lovsky
as Ida Morris
Vladimir Sokoloff
as Feodor Morris
Charles Horvath
as Lott
Robert F. Hoy
as Keim
Maurice Marsac
as Shipping Clerk
Virginia Gregg
as Myra Pringle
William Challee
as Sweeney
Morris Ankrum
as Sea Captain
Arthur Space
as Officer
William Yip
as Dak Sue
Kimo Mahi
as Uala
Norman Wright
as Winkle
Bess Flowers
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
as Salvage Man (uncredited)
Foster H. Phinney
Tani Marsh
as Islander (uncredited)
Joseph Pevney
Director
Ernest K. Gann
Novel
Screenplay
Gordon Kay
Producer
David Raksin
Original Music Composer
Irving Glassberg
Director of Photography
Tony Martinelli
Editor
Alexander Golitzen
Art Direction
Eric Orbom
Oliver Emert
Set Decoration
Russell A. Gausman
Bill Thomas
Costume Design