Sea Legs

Dec 1, 1930

1h 3m

★ 6.0

Oh for the life of a sailor when the battleship's one big boudoir! it's a gloom Destroyer!

Overview

Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Searchlight Doyle

Jack Oakie

Hyacinth Nitouche

Eugene Pallette

Adrienne

Lillian Roth

High Commissioner

André Cheron

Captain

Albert Conti

Gabriel Grabowski

Harry Green

Crosseti

Jean Del Val

Adm. O'Brien

Charles Sellon

Commander

Tom Ricketts

Naval Officer

Billy Gilbert

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Sea Legs

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