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SOS Coast Guard

1937 · 3h 44m · Science Fiction, Action

SKIP — Unless you're a serial enthusiast or 1930s B-movie completist, this creaky 12-chapter Republic serial has aged into pure camp territory, with a plot that sounds fun in theory but delivers glacial pacing and wooden performances. Life's too short to spend 3+ hours on a "city-melting gas" threat that never feels remotely urgent.

Plot

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.

Director: William Witney

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Ralph Byrd, Maxine Doyle, Richard Alexander, Lee Ford

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