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SOS Coast Guard is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Alan James released in USA on 28 august 1937 with Ralph Byrd

SOS Coast Guard (1937)

SOS Coast Guard
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Released in USA 28 august 1937
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Science fiction,    Action
Rating58% 2.947942.947942.947942.947942.94794

S O S Coast Guard (1937) is a Republic film serial. It was the seventh of the sixty-six serials made by Republic. The plot concerns the mad scientist Boroff (Bela Lugosi) attempting to sell a superweapon to the highest bidder, opposed by Coast Guard Lieutenant Terry Kent (Ralph Byrd), for both personal and professional reasons.

The main stars were Bela Lugosi and Ralph Byrd. It was made during the 2-year period when the Hayes Office put a moratorium on horror movies, Lugosi's usual genre, and in the midst of Byrd's notoriety for the highly popular Dick Tracy serials.

Synopsis

Boroff is a mad scientist who has invented a "disintegrator gas" and plans to smuggle it to his buyers in Morovania. When his ship, the Carfax, gets stranded on outlying rocks in the first chapter, the Coast Guard comes to rescue him. Recognised by the reporters, Jean and Snapper, Boroff runs and kills the pursuing coast guard Ensign Jim Kent, who turns to be Lt Terry Kent's brother.

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Republic serials

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936) Darkest Africa (1936) Sharad of Atlantis (1936) The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936) Dick Tracy (1937) Zorro Rides Again (1937) The Painted Stallion (1937) SOS Coast Guard (1937) The Lone Ranger (1938) Dick Tracy Returns (1938) The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938) Hawk of the Wilderness (1938) Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939) Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939) Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939) King of the Royal Mounted (1940) Adventures of Red Ryder (1940) Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940) Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941) Jungle Girl (1941) King of the Texas Rangers (1941) Spy Smasher (1942) King of the Mounties (1942) Perils of Nyoka (1942) G-men vs. the Black Dragon (1943) The Masked Marvel (1943) Secret Service In Darkest Africa (1943) Daredevils of the West (1943) The Tiger Woman (1944) Captain America (1944) Zorro's Black Whip (1944) Haunted Harbor (1944) Federal Operator 99 (1945) Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945) The Purple Monster Strikes (1945) The Phantom Rider (1946) The Crimson Ghost (1946) Daughter of Don Q (1946) King of the Forest Rangers (1946) Son of Zorro (1947) The Black Widow (1947) Jesse James Rides Again (1947) G-Men Never Forget (1948) Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1948) Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948) Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949) Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc. (1949) Ghost of Zorro (1949) The James Brothers of Missouri (1949) King of the Rocket Men (1949) Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950) The Invisible Monster (1950) Desperadoes of the West (1950) Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951) Don Daredevil Rides Again (1951) Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) Radar Men from the Moon (1952) Jungle Drums of Africa (1953) Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953) Man with the Steel Whip (1954) Trader Tom of the China Seas (1954) King of the Carnival (1955) Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)

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