Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Alice Faye
as Pat O'Day
Richard Greene
as Robert Fulton
Fred MacMurray
as Charles Brownne
Brenda Joyce
as Harriet Livingston
Andy Devine
as "Commodore"
Henry Stephenson
as Robert R. Livingston
Fritz Feld
as Tavern Keeper
Ward Bond
as Regan
Clarence Wilson
as Willie Stout
Robert Middlemass
as Nicholas Roosevelt
Roger Imhof
as John Jacob Astor
Theodore von Eltz
as Washington Irving