S.O.S. Coast Guard (1937)
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to… More In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's attempting to pawn off his deadly invention, a disintegrating gas, to the highest bidder. Before the gas can be manufactured, however, Boroff must go in search of certain hard to come by ingredients and the villain is thwarted at every step by US coastguard agent Terry Kent (Ralph Byrd and crusading newspaper woman Jean Norman (Maxine Doyle. In the serial's 12th and final chapter, "The Deadly Circle," Boroff is finally destroyed by his own invention, civilization thus saved for Democracy. Down on his luck by 1937, Lugosi could only watch as Republic Pictures' screenwriters Barry Shipman and Franklyn Adreon wickedly named his character "Boroff," an obvious reference to Lugosi-rival Boris Karloff. S. O. S. Coastguard nevertheless emerged as one of the Hungarian star's better vehicles, in no small measure due to its vigorous hero, Ralph Byrd, a handsome actor perhaps better remembered from Republic's Dick Tracy serials. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Directed By
- Alan James
- Genres
- Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 28, 1937 Wide
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Cast
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Ralph Byrd
as Lt. Terry Kent
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Bela Lugosi
as Boroff
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Maxine Doyle
as Jean Norman
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Herbert Rawlinson
as Commander Boyle
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Richard Alexander
as Thorg
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Lee Ford
as Snapper McGee
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John Picorri
as Rackerby
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Lawrence Grant
as Rabinial
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Thomas Carr
as Ens. Jim Kent
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Carleton Young
as Dodds
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Allen Connor
as Dick Norman
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George Cheseboro
as Degade
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Ranny Weeks
as Wies
- Roy Barcroft
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Edward Cassidy
as Patrol Boat Captain
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Jack Daley
as Sailor on the Carfax
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Lester Dorr
as Hospital Radium Tech.
- Jerry Frank
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Joseph W. Girard
as Morovanian Emissary At Screening
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Alexander Leftwich
as Captain of the Carfax
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Frankie Marvin
as Gas Launch Thug
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Henry Otho
as Chinese Cook
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Buddy Roosevelt
as Patrol Boat Lieutenant
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Dan Wolheim
as Capt. of the Sea Wolf
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Duke York
as Sea Wolf Thug
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Edwin Mordant
as Dr. Meade
- Frank Wayne
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Michael Morgan
as Coastguardsman Moore
