''Tars and Spars'' is a 1946 American

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romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring

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, Janet Blair, and Marc Platt.

Plot

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.

Cast

as Howard Young of Oklahoma * Janet Blair as Christine Bradley of Pennsylvania * Marc Platt as Junior Casady of Indiana * Jeff Donnell as Penny McDougal of Brooklyn *

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as Chuck Enders of Yonkers, U.S.A. * Ray Walker as Lieutenant Scully * James Flavin as Chief Bosun Mate Gurney

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* * * Columbia Pictures films Films directed by Alfred E. Green 1946 romantic comedy films 1946 films American musical comedy films American romantic comedy films American black-and-white films Films about the United States Coast Guard 1940s American films {{1940s-US-comedy-film-stub