The Marines Are Here (1938)

First, stationed in Manila, there are Corporal Dick Jones (Gordon Oliver) and Corporal Hogan (Ray Walker), two U.S. Marine buddies who scrap with each other, and then they meet Miss Terry Foster (June Travis), who has just arrived from China with her nephew,Tommy (Ronnie Cosby, billed as most often in his career as Ronnie Cosbee), after his father and her brother, Sergeant Foster (Wade Boteler) is killed in China. Jones fails to come through but later redeems himself and, since he is first-billed, gets the girl and the sissy nephew.