Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Freddie Bartholomew
• Mickey Rooney
• Charles Coburn
• Herbert Mundin
• Terry Kilburn
• Gale Sondergaard
• Peter Lawford
• John Burton