Windjammer (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Release: 1937-08-06
Director: Ewing Scott
Writers: Daniel Jarrett , James Gruen , Roul Haig
Language: English
Stars: George O’Brien (1899–1985) , Constance Worth , William Hall , Brandon Evans , Gavin Gordon , Stanley Blystone , Lal Chand Mehra , Ben Hendricks Jr. , Lee Shumway , Frank Hagney
Runtime: 60 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Salakuljetuskuunarin vankina (Finland) , Windjammer , 武器密輸船 (Japan) , Praktores tou Mikado (Greece) , Pirataria Moderna (Brazil) , Windjammer (United States of America) , Windjammer (United Kingdom)
Plot: The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth, at her blonde, plumpish best) and put to work as galley slaves and such, but it isn't long before O'Brien starts knocking heads, and making the gun-runners wish they had left him swimming.
IMDB:tt0128844