SOS Coast Guard (1937)

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Ralph Byrd

Lt. Terry Kent

Bela Lugosi

Boroff

Maxine Doyle

Jean Norman

Richard Alexander

Thorg

Lee Ford

Snapper McGee

Herbert Rawlinson

Cmdr. Boyle

John Picorri

G.A. Rackerby [Chs. 2-12]

Lawrence Grant

Rabinisi - Boroff's Spokesman at Screening [Ch. 1]

Thomas Carr

Ens. Jim Kent [Ch. 1]

Carleton Young

Henchman Dodds [Ch. 4]

Allen Connor

Dick Norman

George Chesebro

L.H. Degado - Chief Thug [Ch. 5]

Ranny Weeks

Wies - Ambulance Orderly Thug [Ch. 4]

Roy Barcroft

Goebel
(uncredited)

Richard Beach

Seaman
(uncredited)

Earle D. Bunn

Kelp Plant Heavy 1
(uncredited)

Yakima Canutt

Seaman
(uncredited)

Steve Carruthers

Wireless Operator
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Bela Lugosi's illness prevented him from finishing the 1936 Republic feature The House of a Thousand Candles (1936), so he completed his one-picture Republic contract with this 12-chapter serial, his only screen role during the full two year-horror ban.

Goofs
Almost 7 min into Chapter 6, Bela gives an order to one of his henchmen, but there is no sound when he moves his lips.

Quotes
Lt. Terry Kent: You might as well surrender, Boroff. You can't get away from the Coast Guard.

Connections
Edited into SOS Coast Guard (1942)

When this serial was made, there was a moratorium on horror films, brought on by Joseph Breen of the Hays Office. Consequently, Boris Karloff did thrillers at Warner Bros. (but not really any horror films), and Lugosi did poverty row movies and serials. Of the latter, this one I think is his best, but his having the name "Boroff" plus his using a ship called the "Cairfax" (as in Cairfax Abbey, where Dracula stays in London) are obvious in-jokes, though I doubt they were of Lugosi's doing.