SOS Coast Guard
Released: August 28, 1937Runtime: 224 min
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.
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Ralph Byrd
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Bela Lugosi
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Maxine Doyle
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Richard Alexander
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Lee Ford
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Herbert Rawlinson
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John Picorri
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Lawrence Grant
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Thomas Carr
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Carleton Young
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