Wednesday, August 5, 2020

The Marines Come Thru (1938)

A rather middling spy drama, enlivened by a performing goose. Marine aviation mechanics Singapore (Wallace Ford) and Junior (Grant Withers) have helped the Marines develop a new bomb sight. A group of foreign agents including Beckstrom (Frank Rasmussen) and Dick Weber (Don Lanning) want to steal the plans and manage to infiltrate the base disguised as Marines...

Singapore and Junior overhear the agents' plans and head to an island which is the agents' base. There is also a fairly lengthy segment set in a night club with a performing goose, the goose is probably one of the best actors in this unexceptional drama.

In the end the good guys win through amid a propaganda heavy montage of military footage. However most the audience probably had zoned out by then. The film needed more of Lucille the goose to be honest.