Windjammer
06/08/1937
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) and put to work as galley slaves.
Movie Information
George O'Brien
as Bruce Lane
Constance Worth
as Betty Selby
William Hall
as Captain Morgan
Brandon Evans
as Commodore Russell P. Selby
Gavin Gordon
as J. Montague Forsythe
Stanley Blystone
as Peterson
Lal Chand Mehra
as Willy
Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Dolan
Lee Shumway
as Yacht Captain
Frank Hagney
as Slum
Sam Flint
as Marvin T. Bishop
