Onionhead (1958)
The Ship's Cook who has the Coast Guard in a Stew!
Gênero : Drama, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 51M
Director : Norman Taurog
Escritor : Nelson Gidding
Sinopse
Follow-up to Andy Griffith's big hit in "No Time for Sergeants" moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II.
Em 1952, uma grande nevasca leva uma plataforma de petróleo a se rachar, lançando 84 tripulantes ao mar. Enquanto a tempestade dificulta a sobrevivência do grupo, uma equipe de guardas costeiros tenta resgatar as vítimas.
Ainda muito abalado com um salvamento mal sucedido que resultou na morte de toda sua equipe, o lendário salva-vidas Ben Randall recebe uma missão que ele não quer aceitar – treinar jovens recrutas para os salvamentos em alto mar. Durante os treinos, ele enfrenta problemas com o aprendiz Jake Fisher, um campeão de natação que esconde um doloroso segredo e parece estar mais interessado em quebrar os recordes de Ben do que salvar vidas. Mas Ben percebe mais do que isso no novato. Jake é capaz de fazer o que for preciso para ser o melhor dos melhores.
Após o agente Jack Ryan tornar-se vice-diretor da CIA, ele descobre ligações entre um amigo do presidente dos EUA, que foi assassinado, e os chefes dos cartéis de droga colombianos. Como retaliação, o agente John Clark é enviado para a Colômbia para matar os chefões do tráfico. Ryan, então, tem de lutar para saber o que aconteceu e quem é o responsável.
Em Hong-Kong, durante o Século XIX, os ingleses governavam a terra, porém os piratas dominavam as águas e durante meses vêm aterrorizando os mares. Relutante, a Guarda Costeira fornece o dinheiro para o combate aos piratas, mas eles têm muitos contatos, ou seja, oficiais subordinados que procuram de todas as formas, atrapalhar as tentativas de eliminá-los. Todos os planos para combatê-los, são sabotados pelo corrupto chefe de polícia e sua gangue. Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan), é um oficial da Guarda Costeira determinado a lutar contra a corrupção e acabar com as atividades dos piratas. Uma aventura com espetaculares cenas acrobáticas e sequências de ação de tirar o folêgo como não poderia ser diferente em um filme de Jackie Chan.
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
Guarda costeiro inexperiente se vê às voltas com a missão de capturar três atrapalhados ladrões de joias que tentam uma fuga marítima.
James Bond desobedece ordens e parte em uma missão para vingar a morte da mulher de seu melhor amigo, assassinada por um chefão das drogas. Ele chega à base sul-americana do narcotraficante e, disfarçado de pistoleiro, é contratado pelo criminoso.
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
Dr. Mike Olsen e sua esposa Linda Olsen estão monitorando o fundo do mar e ficam surpresos quando constatam que mais de cem tubarões foram atraídos para a região: o Triângulo das Bermudas. Mas o que eles não sabem é que o estranho fenômeno é causado por um objeto que caiu próximo do local. Quando mergulham em uma missão são atacados violentamente pelas criaturas que também destroem o principal cabo que sustenta e torna viável a vida dentro do submerso laboratório. Sem o abastecimento de oxigênio e sofrendo ataques dos tubarões, todos ficam presos. Sem saída em um laboratório com a estruturada abalada e preste a se romper a qualquer momento.
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Railroad engineer Chuck Long finds the showgirl he's about to marry was the subject of scandal and swears off women. He joins a coast guard unit stationed at a lighthouse, and one day must rescue a drowning girl that turns out to be his old fiancée.
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
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Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
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