Sea Legs (1930)
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.
Director: Victor Heerman
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Jack Oakie as Searchlight Doyle |
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Eugene Pallette as Hyacinth Nitouche |
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Lillian Roth as Adrienne |
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André Cheron as High Commissioner |
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Albert Conti as Captain |
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Harry Green as Gabriel Grabowski |
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Jean Del Val as Crosseti |
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Charles Sellon as Adm. O'Brien |
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Tom Ricketts as Commander |
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Billy Gilbert as Naval Officer |
| Directing | Victor Heerman | Director |
| Camera | Allen G. Siegler | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Doris Drought | Editor |
| Sound | Ralph Rainger | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | George Marion Jr. | Story |
| Sound | W. Franke Harling | Songs |
| Sound | Ralph Rainger | Songs |
| Writing | George Marion Jr. | Lyricist |
| Writing | Marion Dix | Scenario Writer |
