- HD 1080
- Runtime: 62m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: John H. Auer
- Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks, Marc Lawrence, George Barbier
- keywords: husband wife relationship, gangster, hit-and-run, ventriloquist, murder, tv reporter, stock footage, fiancé fiancée relationship, faked footage, political corruption, ventriloquist's dummy, family life, father son relationship, mayoral election, comical sidekick, bombed building, gang bomber
- Production_studio: Republic Pictures
- Slogan: The March Of Crime! Televised on a coast-to-coast hook-up by an underworld lord whose weapons are the latest wonders of science.
- The S.O.S Tidal Wave is featured in the top rankings of 1939
- #26 in Top Crime Movies of 1939
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.