Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaStep back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling i... Ler tudoStep back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling illegal furs right past the Coast Guard. Can the authorities catch him out? A classic film ... Ler tudoStep back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling illegal furs right past the Coast Guard. Can the authorities catch him out? A classic film directed by Hamilton MacFadden.
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Artistas
- Florence 'Toots' Riley
- (as Dorothy McNulty)
- Dancer
- (não creditado)
- Cmdr. Dixon
- (não creditado)
Avaliações em destaque
Sometimes I worry that I've trained myself to see the infelicities in great movies and the small redeeming points in bad movies. Writing as many reviews as I do, straining to find something interesting to say, must distort my take on them. I write this because with Hamilton McFadden as director and the sort of plot that had already been done a hundred times, how good could this be?
Yet Republic Studios was very ambitious in this period, and I enjoyed this movie; not just for the couple of good songs Miss Madden sings, but because the cast is a very good one, and they each of them get to shine for a brief period. There's Warren Hymer and Penny Singleton, Joyce Compton -- she's a favorite of mine -- Bryant Washburn, Christine McIntyre, Dewey Robinson, and Asta the Dog from the Thin Man series (here credited properly as 'Skippy').
This movie won no awards, nor did it deserve to. But there were enough good moments to please me.
In fact, she was eventually president of the American Guild of Variety Artists, and was the first woman president of an AFL-CIO union, leading a strike of Rockettes in 1966.
But she was so eminently watchable, even with this very minor script, very capable as performer, and just delightful to look at and listen to. Later she was the title character when Chic Young's comic strip "Blondie" was turned into a motion picture series.
In my opinion, Syd Saylor was the number two thief. He so often was cast as an at least somewhat bumbling character that seeing him here as such a strong and confident character, even though one of the villains, showed him in a new light. He stole almost every scene he was in with a great performance.
J. Carroll Naish was one of the most talented actors in Hollywood history, being able to play just about every type of role, and almost every nationality, even, as here, a United Statesian.
The two alleged heroes have pretty poor parts, though they do their best. Warren Hymer seldom got the chance to be a leading man but he showed he could do it, even with this script.
Second-billed Jeanne Madden was an excellent singer, and performed more often as a singer than actress, having only three credits listed at IMDb. Probably, with that beautiful smile, she could have done more, but now we'll never know.
Well, it lasts just an hour, and if you don't expect too much, it's a nice hour.
There is also a lesson, since the "crime" is about smuggling: Governments are quite concerned about taxing every possible item, including food. So much of what is called "crime" is really nothing but an effort by someone to keep his own money. Yet the Coast Guard here, and in real life, risks the lives of often innocent people as well as of the sailors themselves, just for government revenue.
But, again, it's a nice hour and there is a fair copy of "Sea Racketeers" at YouTube.
*The dancing is just stupid. At five minutes into the film, one of the leading ladies dances about with all the grace of a bear on quaaludes. Later, there is an amazingly silly number involving women in swim suits wearing fur coats and cavorting about in the snow--all staged on a ship!
These two when they're not chasing women and making fools of themselves are on a case involving smuggling. J. Carrol Naish who operates a gambling boat has a nice sideline in smuggling. Jeanne Madden's dad who is also in the Coast Guard is killed and she is doing her own investigation looking into her father's death. As Naish has a nightclub on board she joins the showgirls one of whom is future Blondie, Penny Singleton.
It's Madden and Singleton who the two Beavis and Butthead wannabes fight over. Their antics do make Sea Racketeers somewhat amusing.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesAmongst the stock shots of USCG ships and aircraft is a brief clip of a Fokker PJ-1/2 "Flying Lifeboat", a monoplane flying boat with two pusher engines mounted on pylons to keep them clear of spray.
- Trilhas sonorasThe Lady Wants To Dance
Music by Lou Handman
Lyrics by Walter Hirsch
Sung and Danced by Penny Singleton (as Dorothy McNulty)
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- Vigilantes do Mar
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- Tempo de duração1 hora 4 minutos
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- 1.37 : 1