- Step back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling illegal furs right past the Coast Guard. Can the authorities catch him out? A classic film directed by Hamilton MacFadden.
- Coast Guardsmen Jim Wilson and his friend, Spud Logan, try to stop a shipment of smuggled furs from reaching the shore, but smuggler Harry Durant distracts them by stranding his fence, fur dealer Maxwell Gordon, and one of his singers, Florence "Toots" Riley, in a speedboat that runs out of gas. The furs reach their destination, but along the way, Durant's thug Weasel kills lighthouse keeper Sam Collins, an old pal of Jim and Spud's. Jim and Spud take in Collins' daughter Patricia, now a grown woman whom they have not seen in years, while Coast Guard Inspector L. McGrath begins investigating Durant's gambling ship, the Fortune , from which he suspects Durant runs his smuggling operation. The unsuspecting Pat takes a job as a singer on Durant's ship, and Durant gives her a fur coat to take back to shore on the pretext that a wealthy, drunken patron left it. Jim intercepts Pat and takes the coat to the designated apartment. When Durant receives the coat, Jim, thinking that it was a lure to get Pat into his clutches, socks him. Believing that she has lost her job, Pat becomes upset, and things get even worse when Spud jealously reveals that Jim is using the same romantic techniques on her that he used on Spud's former girl friend Blondie. The angry Pat declares that she never wants to see Jim again and leaves, after which Jim and Spud end their friendship as well. Soon after, Pat is working aboard the Fortune on the night of Gordon's latest fur show, which is to feature furs that Durant will smuggle ashore after the show. Durant is cleverly having the ship guarded by the Coast Guard in order to allay their suspicions, and Toots tries to bring about a reconciliation between Pat and Jim, and Jim and Spud. While Jim is stubbornly refusing to talk to Spud, Durant finds McGrath's body in the storeroom, in which he was accidentally locked during his investigation. After Spud, sneaking onto the Fortune to see Toots, also finds McGrath's body, he is locked in the storeroom, where he is in danger of being killed by the mothball chemicals, as was McGrath. Lew, one of Durant's men, finds a note revealing the gang's operations written by McGrath and hidden in one of the fur coats to be shown. While the models don the coats, the gang desperately searches them for more notes. Pat finds one of the notes, after which Durant grabs her. Jim is aboard looking for Spud, who is not at his post, and he becomes suspicious when he can find neither Spud or Pat. Durant attempts to distract Jim by injuring one of his own henchmen, but Jim finds the watch he gave to Spud in the man's pocket. Durant tries to escape, using Spud and Pat as hostages, but Jim foils his plans and the smugglers are arrested. Jim and Spud are reconciled and soon go on a date with Pat and Toots.
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