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.
Randolph Scott
as Thomas 'Speed' Bradshaw
Frances Dee
as Nancy Bliss
Ralph Bellamy
as Raymond Dower
Walter Connolly
as Tobias Bliss
Warren Hymer
as O'Hara
Robert Middlemass
as Capt. Lyons
Stanley Andrews
as Comdr. Hooker
Edmund MacDonald
as Lt. Thompson
Harry Anderson
as Sailor (uncredited)
Raymond Bailey
as First Officer (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
as Bartender (uncredited)
Linda Brent
as (uncredited)
