The Marines Are Coming
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Cast & Crew
David Howard
William Haines
Esther Ralston
Conrad Nagel
Armida
Edgar Kennedy
Film Details
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Synopsis
Following his latest romantic intrigue, Lieutenant "Wild Bill" Traylor returns to his Marine base in San Diego and discovers that he has been assigned to his old rival, the respectable Captain Benton. Although tracked from Alaska by his ardent admirer Rosita, a Latin dancer, Bill pursues Dorothy Manning, who is engaged to Benton. Eventually Bill convinces Dorothy to break her engagement to Benton and marry him, and Benton accepts his defeat with grace. On the eve of their wedding, however, Bill and his orderly, Buck Martin, are caught in a gambling house brawl in Tijuana. That same night, Dorothy sees Bill with Rosita and sails for Latin America without her fiancé. Because of the brawl, Bill is forced to resign his commission, but re-enlists with Buck as a private and is sent to a base in Ponta Miguel, where Dorothy's father is the governor. Bill is confined to the guardhouse by Benton, who has been transferred to the base, and vows revenge on his superior. However, when Benton is captured by The Torch and his gang of bandits, Bill pretends to be drunk in the village and falls in with two intoxicated bandits, who take him to their fort. There, Bill feigns hate for Benton and convinces The Torch that he has turned renegade. Then, as The Torch makes plans to ambush Benton's rescue patrol, Bill overwhelms him, mans a machine gun and, with Benton's help, holds off the other bandits until the Marines arrive. After the rescue, Bill reunites with a forgiving Dorothy but, realizing that she belongs with the more virtuous Benton, feigns disinterest in her and embraces Rosita. Bill then leaves for Washington, D.C. to retake his commission examination and return to the faithful Rosita as an officer.
Director
David Howard
Cast
William Haines
Esther Ralston
Conrad Nagel
Armida
Edgar Kennedy
Hale Hamilton
George Regas
Michael Visaroff
Dell Henderson
Broderick O'farrell
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The working title of this film was The Marines Have Landed. The film was also reviewed as Marines Are Coming. According to a pre-production ad, story writers John Rathmell and Colbert Clark were former Marines. According to a Hollywood Reporter production chart, Clark and another writer, Wallace MacDonald, worked on the screenplay with credited scenarist James Gruen. Their contribution to the final screenplay has not been determined. Hollywood Reporter production charts add the following actors to the cast: Chris-Pin Martin, Wes Warner, Bill Hoyt, Frank Leyva, Gino Corrado, Joe Dominguez, Harvey Irwin, S. W. Robinson, Gene Daguna and Yancey Lane. Their participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Atmospheric scenes for the picture were shot at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, according to news items. For those scenes, Ernest Miller acted as cinematographer while William Nobles operated the camera. The Variety reviewer complained about the "Russian accent of some of the Central America characters" in the film.
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Released in United States 1934
Released in United States 1934
