During World War II, a street peddler invents a story about enlisting, which convinces the magistrate to send him to the RAF instead of prison. A new loyal friend goes along with his schemes to avoid work, but eventually duty calls.
Released from a British prison, an American is hired as an electrician for a London bank - but his criminal acquaintances show up, and force the reluctant Yank to join them as the inside man in a well-planned bank heist.
Off the Spanish coast, two tug-boat captains are caught in a violent feud over a woman but their rivalry is set aside when a sinking freighter carrying explosives must be salvaged and towed to port.
