Coast Guard (1939)
Arm in arm...FOR THE GLORY OF THE SERVICE. Fist to fist...FOR THE HAND OF A GIRL!
72 min
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
- Release date
- August 4, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Randolph Scott as Lt. Thomas 'Speed' Bradshaw
- Frances Dee as Nancy Bliss
- Ralph Bellamy as Lt. Raymond 'Ray' Dower
- Walter Connolly as Tobias Bliss
- Warren Hymer as Lancelot O'Hara
- Robert Middlemass as Capt. Lyons
- Stanley Andrews as Comdr. Hooker
- Edmund MacDonald as Lt. Thompson
- Harry Anderson as Sailor
- Raymond Bailey as First Officer
Crew
- Edward Ludwig · Director
- Richard Maibaum · Writer
- Albert Duffy · Writer
- Harry Segall · Writer
- Fred Kohlmar · Producer
- Lucien Ballard · Cinematographer
- Gene Milford · Editor