Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
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.
Director:
Nathan Juran
Writers:
Bernard Gordon, David Lang.
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Ronald Reagan as Cmdr. Casey Abbott (Captain, USS Starfish) |
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Nancy Reagan as Nurse Lt. Helen Blair |
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Arthur Franz as Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon (XO, USS Starfish) |
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Robert Arthur as Freddy Warren |
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William Leslie as Lt. Paul Prentice |
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William Phillips as Carroll (as William Phillips) |
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Harry Lauter as Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton |
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Michael Garth as Bill aka Lt. Charlie |
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Joe Turkel as Chick (as Joseph Turkel) |
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Don Keefer as Jug |
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Chester W. Nimitz as Himself (in prologue) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Nathan Juran | Director |
| Writing | Bernard Gordon | Screenplay |
| Writing | David Lang | Screenplay |
| Art | Rudi Feld | Art Direction |
| Camera | Irving Lippman | Director of Photography |
| Production | Charles H. Schneer | Producer |
| Editing | Jerome Thoms | Editor |
| Writing | Charles A. Lockwood | Book |
| Writing | David Lang | Screenstory |
| Writing | Hans Christian Adamson | Book |
