SOS Coast Guard

Aug 28, 1937

3h 44m

★ 4.7

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Action

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

SOS Coast Guard Trailers

Cast

Boroff

Bela Lugosi

Lt. Terry Kent

Ralph Byrd

Jean Norman

Maxine Doyle

Thorg

Richard Alexander

Snapper McGee

Lee Ford

Cmdr. Boyle

Herbert Rawlinson

G.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]

John Picorri

Dick Norman

Allen Connor

Ens. Jim Kent [Ch. 1]

Thomas Carr

Rabinisi - Boroff's Spokesman at Screening [Ch. 1]

Lawrence Grant

Henchman Dodds [Ch. 4]

Carleton Young

L.H. Degado - Chief Thug [Ch. 5]

George Chesebro

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