STATE THEATRE
"SEA DEVILS." Victor McLaglen as a chief bo'sun's mate in the Coast Guard, and Preston Foster, as his rival, score a bull's eye in stellar entertainment in RKO Radio 's stirring drama, "Sea Devils," screening at the State Theatre to-night. Ida Lupino with Donald Woods heads the supporting cast. Seaman Foster, an adventurer, no sooner joins the crew of McLaglen 's ship than trouble starts between the" two. Boasting of his prowess with the weaker sex, Foster begins courting McLaglen fs daughter, Ida Lupino. Foster is about the last man in the service McLaglen would choose as a son-in-law, but it happens that his daughter has a mind of her own, so McLaglen initiates a bitter feud with the sailor. Terrific combats between this pair of Titians vie with thrilling rescues from storm-battered ships as dramatic highlights of this action-crammed photoplay. Using the Unitod States Coast Guard cutter Tahoe and its crew, a perilous reseue of passengers from a b'urning vessel is effeeted, and later other lives are saved from a hurricane grounded boat. in which full beach- equipment is brought into play in a revealing demonstration of life-saving technique.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 3
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192STATE THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 3
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