This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
Jane Darwell
as Tugboat Annie
Edgar Kennedy
as Captain Bullwinkle
Charles Gordon
as Terry Jordan
Mantan Moreland
as Pinto
Pamela Blake
as Marion Graves
Hardie Albright
as Johnny Webb
H.B. Warner
as Judge Abbott
Jack Norton
as Shiftless
Barton Yarborough
as Missouri Jones
Fritz Feld
as Al Pucci aka Alfred Puccini
Sam Flint
as Fire Chief
Anthony Warde
as Jake