SOS Coast Guard
1937 · 3h 44m · Approved
Action, Science Fiction
Directed by
William Witney
,
Alan James
Overview
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Director and cast
- William Witney Director
- Alan James Director
- Bela Lugosi as Boroff
- Ralph Byrd as Lt. Terry Kent
- Maxine Doyle as Jean Norman
- Richard Alexander as Thorg
- Lee Ford as Snapper McGee
- Herbert Rawlinson as Cmdr. Boyle
- John Picorri as G.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]
- Allen Connor as Dick Norman
- Thomas Carr as Ens. Jim Kent [Ch. 1]
- Lawrence Grant as Rabinisi - Boroff's Spokesman at Screening [Ch. 1]
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