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Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Drama Thriller War

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

Release Date: 1957, May 1
Directors: Nathan Juran
Countries: United States of America
Production: Morningside Productions
Cast: Joe Turkel, Ronald Reagan, Robert Arthur, William Phillips, Don Keefer, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz, Harry Lauter, William Leslie, Michael Garth, Chester W. Nimitz

Overview:

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 convinced that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.

Keywords:

love triangle submarine nurse