The Marines Are Coming

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Movie
Original title The Marines Are Coming
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1934
length 74 minutes
Rod
Director David Howard
script Colbert Clark , James Gruen , John Rathmell
production Nat Levine for Mascot Pictures
music "Semper Fidelis" by John Philip Sousa , "Brazilian Baby" by Gus Edwards
camera Ernest Miller , William Nobles
occupation

The Marines Are Coming is a 1934 American film that is a comedy film about the intervention of the United States Marine Corps in the fictional Latin American state of Ponta Miguel during the era of the banana wars .

action

A US Marine Corps barracks in San Diego , California . Lieutenant "Wild Bill" Traylor is deeply in debt; his direct superior, Captain Benton, calls him the Marines playboy . Traylor is not only persecuted by his debts, but also by the spirited Latin American Rosita, whom he saved from the bandit leader "The Torch" in Ponta Delgado . She followed him from Ponta Delgado via Panama to San Diego and is determined to marry him.

However, Traylor intends to marry the blond, middle-class Dorothy - as does his boss Benton. The ladies of the company are outraged , however, about a possible connection between Dorothy and Traylor, about whom they have heard "terrible things" during his service in Nicaragua .

Meanwhile the news arrives from Ponta Miguel that the "savage", known as "The Torch", is running amok . Therefore, the Marines from San Diego stationed there are to be reinforced. Traylor is looking forward to the mission, because the "torch" is his "favorite bandit". Before that, however, he would like to marry Dorothy in Tijuana . A scandal breaks out at the wedding reception. Traylor fights a Mexican believer and is arrested by local police. Benton has to trigger it. Marine Colonel Gilroy has had enough of Traylor's indiscipline and tells him through Benton that there are only two alternatives for him: Either he faces a court martial or he voluntarily says goodbye.

Traylor chooses the second option, but reports immediately when recruitment site of the Marines to a simple Marine soldier again enter into the Corps and participate in the use in Ponta Miguel. The marines are transported to Ponta Miguel by ship; Dorothy accompanies Benton on the mission.

"Die Fackel" tries through intermediaries to win the drunken Traylor as an officer for his troops, as he has captured a machine gun from the marines , but his bandits cannot operate it. Benton device with a patrol of marines in a rear stop bandit; he is the only survivor and now their hostage . Traylor pretends to accept the "torch" offer. But then he frees Benton and both of them massacre the bandits with machine guns and hand grenades . Dorothy now sees a hero in Traylor , but also realizes that he belongs to Rosa and not to her. When everyone returns to San Diego, Traylor receives a message to go to Washington, DC to get his officer's license back.

Production background

In 1933/34, the Marine Corps was withdrawn from Nicaragua and Haiti due to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's new "good neighborhood policy" and the banana wars ended. The term "bandit" for insurgents corresponded to the official US language regulation; political motives were not given to them. This constellation can also be found in a second Mascot production from 1935, the serial The Fighting Marines .

criticism

His (Haines) latest effort dresses him in the uniform of a first lieutenant of the Marine Corps. A regular devil with the women, he comes to grief over the gaming table and is forced out of the corps. In the ensuing regeneration process, he enlists as a private, rescues his rival, Conrad Nagel, from the bandits of Puerta Miguel, or some such place in Latin America, and, in a gesture of supreme self-abnegation, gives up the girl to the better man.

A few marines were in yesterday's audience. Judging by their faces as they left, it was just as well that Mr. Haines was not.

New York Times February 23, 1935

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