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The Old Man and the Sea where he caught a giant-sized marlin only for it to be eaten by sharks as he made his way back to port.
Captain's Courageous. A film about a spoilt rich kid who falls off a luxury liner only to be picked up by a fishing fleet. He's taken under the wing of a fisherman played by Tracey who educates him in the realities of life and turns him into a man.
The daughter who gets married after a series of complications was the Father of the Bride, later made into a dire, truly awful remake starring Steve Martin.
Here's the lad himself all decked up in pilot leathers...