Fighting Coast Guard is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell, Richard Jaeckel, William Murphy and Martin Milner. The film was released on June 1, 1951, by Republic Pictures.[2][3][4]
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Directed by | Joseph Kane |
Screenplay by | Kenneth Gamet |
Story by | Charles Marquis Warren |
Produced by | Joseph Kane |
Starring | Brian Donlevy Forrest Tucker Ella Raines John Russell Richard Jaeckel William Murphy Martin Milner |
Cinematography | Reggie Lanning |
Edited by | Arthur Roberts |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | Republic Pictures |
Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $532,111[1] |
Shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, shipyard foreman Bill Rourk is feuding with a former football star, Barney Walker, who now works there. He is romantically attracted to Louise Ryan, an admiral's daughter working as a wartime welder, but she is dating Ian McFarland, a naval commander.
McFarland launches an officers training course once America becomes active in World War II. Bill signs up, but his record is tainted by lies told by Walker. He is also caught out after curfew by the military police, while trying to romance Louise.
Walker is fatally injured in battle and confesses his lies about Bill before dying. When a former shipyard colleague, young Tony Jessup, is stranded and endangered, Bill disobeys orders and heroically tries to save Tony, who dies while being rescued. McFarland commends his bravery, then confides to that his sweetheart, Louise, has fallen in love with Bill.
Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, wrote, "Directed and played in a florid fashion, this story falls flatly in the class of low-grade adventure fiction that makes neither point nor sense."[3]
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