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Sea Legs
“Oh for the life of a sailor when the battleship's one big boudoir! it's a gloom Destroyer!”
6.0 / 10• 1930• 1h 3m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
Cast & Crew
Jack Oakie
Searchlight Doyle
Lead
Eugene Pallette
Hyacinth Nitouche
Lillian Roth
Adrienne
André Cheron
High Commissioner
Albert Conti
Captain
Harry Green
Gabriel Grabowski
Jean Del Val
Crosseti
Charles Sellon
Adm. O'Brien
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Victor Heerman's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Sea Legs is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
