Coast Guard (1939 film)

Coast Guard is a 1939 American adventure film released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Randolph Scott, Frances Dee and Ralph Bellamy. It is set before World War II.

Lieutenant Raymond Ray Dower Ralph Bellamy commands a United States Coast Guard rescue ship. His best friend in the Coast Guard, Lieutenant Thomas Speed Bradshaw Randolph Scott, is a highly regarded, but reckless pilot. In a daring rescue at sea, both men are involved in saving Tobias Bliss Walter Connolly, the captain of a tramp steamer. At the base hospital, the two officers visit the rescued man and meet Nancy Frances Dee, his granddaughter. Both friends fall in love with her, but Speed proposes first brokenhearted, Ray still acts as the best man at the wedding.The marriage falters, and when Nancy is fed up with many lonely nights alone, she leaves Speed. In trying to win her back, Speed crashes while stunting over her house. Grounded and facing a courtmartial, the disgraced pilot finds out that his best friend is missing while on an Arctic rescue mission. Nancy coaxes Speed and his copilot, OHara Warren Hymer, to attempt a rescue, and after a harrowing crashlanding in the Arctic, an injured Ray is located. Speed manages a dangerous takeoff and flies his friend back home, to find a relieved Nancy waiting for him. ........

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