Air and sea rescue is certainly covered in the film Coast Guard with buddies Randolph Scott doing the flying and Ralph Bellamy doing the sailing. They're both dedicated Coast Guard men, but they are polar opposites in personality.
Ralph Bellamy is all about the job, but that doesn't mean doesn't want to settle down one day with a wife and kids. Randolph Scott is the Coast Guard's best pilot and he knows it. That enables him to get girls of all shapes and sizes. The last thing he wants to do is settle down even though co-pilot Warren Hymer thinks he ought to slow down a bit.
Both participate in the rescue of tugboat captain Walter Connolly with Bellamy pulling him out of the water and Scott flying him to a hospital. And both fall hard for Connolly's daughter Frances Dee. But she likes the bad boy in Scott.
This was truly revolutionary casting for Scott. Over at Warner Brothers this would have been perfect Cagney/O'Brien material. Randolph Scott actually does well in a Cagney type role. His legion of fans who are used to seeing his tight lipped and taciturn hero in his westerns will be surprised at this film.
The climax is a polar rescue of a stranded whaling ship and its crew and Bellamy needs a bit of rescuing at the end himself and of course its Randolph Scott the air ace of the Coast Guard who does the job. Need I tell you who gets Frances Dee for good and all time at the end.
The sea and the polar rescue scenes are done well given the limits of the times the film was made in. And Jim and Pat could not have done the buddy roles any better at the Brothers Warner.
Ralph Bellamy is all about the job, but that doesn't mean doesn't want to settle down one day with a wife and kids. Randolph Scott is the Coast Guard's best pilot and he knows it. That enables him to get girls of all shapes and sizes. The last thing he wants to do is settle down even though co-pilot Warren Hymer thinks he ought to slow down a bit.
Both participate in the rescue of tugboat captain Walter Connolly with Bellamy pulling him out of the water and Scott flying him to a hospital. And both fall hard for Connolly's daughter Frances Dee. But she likes the bad boy in Scott.
This was truly revolutionary casting for Scott. Over at Warner Brothers this would have been perfect Cagney/O'Brien material. Randolph Scott actually does well in a Cagney type role. His legion of fans who are used to seeing his tight lipped and taciturn hero in his westerns will be surprised at this film.
The climax is a polar rescue of a stranded whaling ship and its crew and Bellamy needs a bit of rescuing at the end himself and of course its Randolph Scott the air ace of the Coast Guard who does the job. Need I tell you who gets Frances Dee for good and all time at the end.
The sea and the polar rescue scenes are done well given the limits of the times the film was made in. And Jim and Pat could not have done the buddy roles any better at the Brothers Warner.