S.O.S. Coast Guard

(1937)

Mystery / Science Fiction / Serial / War

Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist (Boroff) who holds the formula for a deadly gas that will disintegrate anything in its path and Lt. Terry Kent has to face every possible danger in order to stop Boroff and his evil plan. He only has 12 chapters to do so.
 
Cast:

Ralph Byrd as Terry Kent, Coast guard lieutenant
Bela Lugosi as Boroff, Mad scientist. 
Maxine Doyle as Jean Norman, Reporter  
Richard Alexander as Thorg, mute, lobotomised servant of Boroff
Lee Ford as Snapper McGree, Reporter
Herbert Rawlinson as Boyle, Coast guard commander
John Picorri as G. A. Rackerby, Scientist-henchman working for Boroff
Lawrence Grant as Rabinisi, Boroff's henchman
Thomas Carr as Jim Kent, Terry's brother and a Coast guard ensign
Carleton Young as Dodds, Boroff's henchman
Allen Connor as Dick Norman, Jean's brother and Chemist
George Chesebro as L.H. DeGado, Boroff's henchman
Ranny Weeks as Wies, Boroff's henchman

Chapters:

Chapter 1 - Disaster at Sea

Chapter 2 - Barrage of Death

Chapter 3 - The Gas Chamber

Chapter 4 - The Fatal Shaft

Chapter 5 - The Mystery Ship

Chapter 6 - Deadly Cargo

Chapter 7 - Undersea Terror

Chapter 8 - The Crash

Chapter 9 - Wolves at Bay

Chapter 10 - The Acid Trail

Chapter 11 - The Sea Battle

Chapter 12 - The Deadly Circle