On November 16, 1941 at the La Dessa U. S. army post in the Philippines, a Japanese aircraft carrier off the coast transmits a coded message to the contraband radio of Nazi spies who stick the message in a bottle of German liquor called Kümmel. The message states a Japanese battleship is approaching Pearl Harbor, Private Steve "Lucky" Smith (Don "Red" Barry) meets his fellow soldiers Bruce Gordon (Alan Curtis) and "Portly" Porter (Maynard Holmes) in the Casa Marina bar, where Lucky and Steve try to attract Portly's sister, Marcia (Fay McKenzie). Portly arranges for Marcia to be the secretary to Andy L. Anderson (Rhys Williams), the owner of the bar. A businessman named Littlefield (Robert Emmett Keane) slips into Marcia's booth to read the message in the Kümmel bottle. Lucky comes to her defence by attacking Littlefield, with Bruce and Portly joining the fight.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Drama, Romance, War |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Albert J. Cohen |
Directed By: | Joseph Santley |
Written By: | Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Isabel Dawn, Jack Natteford |
Cast: | Victor Wong, Sammy Stein, Al Kikume, Fay McKenzie, Benny Inocencio, Luke Chan, John James, Lorin Raker, Ralph Soncuya, Bruce Kellogg, Wallace Scott, George O'Hanlon, Maynard Holmes, Ian Keith, Diana Del Rio, Tom Steele, Paul Fung, Mark Roberts, Robert Emmett Keane, Earle S. Dewey, Rhys Williams, Frank Marlowe, Escolastico Baucin, Sig Ruman, Charles Flynn, Richard Loo, Alan Curtis, Carmella Cansino, Pedro Regas, James B. Leong, Yakima Canutt, Knox Manning, Mel Ruick, Don 'Red' Barry, Eddie Dew, José Pérez |
In Theaters: | May 18, 1942 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
Production: | Republic Pictures (I) |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |