It was produced by Lew Fields with musical numbers stage by Busby Berkeley.

Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne, with its title changed to Leathernecking.

The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton, Joyce Barbour and Busby Berkeley.

He flirts with an English Peer's daughter; however, she is being pursued by a German, who raises pineapples in Hawaii.

The Brooklynite pretends to be a Captain in order to make an impression, but he is found out, booted out, and loses out on the girl, until he proves himself in a shipwreck.