Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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With war raging on the continent, Guernsey fisherman "Gilliatt" (Rock Hudson) likes to engage in a bit of petty smuggling with his pal "Willie" (Bryan Forbes) constantly keeping one step ahead of the excise men. Then he encounters the enigmatic "Droucette" (Yvonne De Carlo) whom we know is on a secret mission from "Lethierry" (Denis O'Dea) to travel back to France so she can garner as much information as she can on the plans for further European expansion by Napoleon (Gérard Oury). "Gilliatt" comes to believe that she is a collaborator and though he is keen on her, he isn't so enthusiastic about her politics. He has to rethink though when he discovers not only the truth, but that she is now in considerable peril. Meantime, he has to keep an eye on the duplicitous "Rantaine" (Maxwell Reed) who also deals in some illicit goods - and he has no loyalty save to his paymaster. Can she make it back safely? Everyone here is just a little wooden. There's not really any chemistry between Hudson and De Carlo and though the espionage element of the plot does engender a little sense of menace, the film has a disappointing predictability about it all.
