- Shipping clerk Joe Holt is mistaken for a swimming champion and expected to compete in a long-distance swim race off Catalina Island.
- Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion Canadian swimmer. Socialite Ginger Rogers gets them confused and thinks that Brown is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit and enters him in a 20 mile (32 km) swim race.—Jack McKillop <jem3@donuts0.bellcore.com>
- Joe Holt works as a shipping clerk for a rubber company. On the side, he's invented an unsinkable bathing suit, but he is bullied and ridiculed by his co-workers. When he inherits his late aunt's fortune he quits his job and moves to California. There he learns that his inheritance amounts to some worthless bonds and five dollars and change, as well as the charge of a young African American boy named Sam. Looking for work on Catalina Island, Holt is mistaken by Alice Brandon for another Joe Holt, a celebrated long-distance swimmer. Holt, who is afraid of water, is expected to compete in a twenty-mile marathon swim against the likes of Ed Dover, his competition for Alice's affections.—Jimmy L.
- The recent life of single milquetoast Joe Holt of Marshalltown, IA has been a series of what initially seems to be an "up" followed by an associated massive "down" making him worse off than when he started. In that series includes "inheriting" a son, a black boy named Sam Wellington. The most recent up, in a case of mistaken identity, is being asked to live in the home of the wealthy Brandons on Catalina Island instead of the busboy jobs on the island he had arranged for himself and Sam. The following down is learning that the Joe Holt the Brandons were expecting is a marathon swimmer they are sponsoring for the twenty-five mile Catalina to mainland swimming competition. What's worse for Joe is that he doesn't know how to swim in always having been afraid of the water. Joe continues in the ruse in having fallen for pretty Alice Brandon, she seemingly having fallen for him in return. The only way Joe believes he has any chance not only of surviving the swim but winning the race is to get his hands on the new swimming suit made of unsinkable material made by the Armstrong Corporation, he having devised the material himself when he worked as a shipping clerk for the company. Joe's primary nemesis at Armstrong, blowhard Harry Daniels, does whatever he can to prevent Joe from getting one of the suits. Beyond the suit itself, another obstacle for Joe is his primary competition, egotistical Ed Dover, that competition not only in the race but for Alice's affections.—Huggo
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