Hellcats of the Navy

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Down . . . Down . . . Down . . . into enemy waters with the fightin' hellcats of the U.S. sub pack !

  • Genre: War, Drama, Thriller
  • Release Date: 1957-05-01
  • User Rating: 4.3/10 from 13 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 22min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Morningside Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Nathan Juran
star 4.3/10
From 13 Ratings
5.6

Summary

Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.

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  • Ronald Reagan

    as Cmdr. Casey Abbott (Captain, USS Starfish)
  • Nancy Reagan

    as Nurse Lt. Helen Blair
  • Arthur Franz

    as Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon (XO, USS Starfish)
  • Robert Arthur

    as Freddy Warren
  • William Leslie

    as Lt. Paul Prentice
  • William Phillips

    as Carroll (as William Phillips)
  • Harry Lauter

    as Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton
  • Michael Garth

    as Bill aka Lt. Charlie
  • Joe Turkel

    as Chick (as Joseph Turkel)
  • Don Keefer

    as Jug
  • Chester W. Nimitz

    as Himself (in prologue) (uncredited)
Directing Nathan Juran Director
Writing Bernard Gordon Screenplay
Writing David Lang Screenplay
Production Charles H. Schneer Producer
Camera Irving Lippman Director of Photography
Art Rudi Feld Art Direction
Editing Jerome Thoms Editor
Writing Charles A. Lockwood Book
Writing Hans Christian Adamson Book
Writing David Lang Screenstory

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