Hellcats of the Navy
movie
Down . . . Down . . . Down . . . into enemy waters with the fightin' hellcats of the U.S. sub pack !
Released May 01, 1957
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.
Cast
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
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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)
Crew
Nathan Juran
as
Director
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Bernard Gordon
as
Screenplay
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David Lang
as
Screenplay
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Jerome Thoms
as
Editor
Charles H. Schneer
as
Producer
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Irving Lippman
as
Director of Photography
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Rudi Feld
as
Art Direction
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Hans Christian Adamson
as
Book
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David Lang
as
Screenstory
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Charles A. Lockwood
as
Book