Fighting Coast Guard


Fighting Coast Guard is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane, written by Kenneth Gamet and starring Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker and Ella Raines. The film was released on June 1, 1951 by Republic Pictures.

Plot

Shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, shipyard foreman Bill Rourk is feuding with coworker and former football star Barney Walker. He is romantically attracted to Louise Ryan, an admiral's daughter working as a wartime welder, but she is dating naval commander Ian McFarland.
McFarland launches an officer-training course after the American entry intoWorld War II. Bill wants to take the course, 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 former shipyard colleague Tony Jessup is stranded and endangered, Bill disobeys orders and heroically tries to save Tony, who dies while being rescued. McFarland commends his bravery and then confides that Louise has fallen in love with Bill.

Cast

In a contemporary review for The [New York Times], critic Bosley Crowther called the film "an interesting specimen of a picture pitched to the youthful and restless masculine trade" and 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."