War ·Drama ·Thriller · United States of America · 1957 · 1h 22m

Hellcats of the Navy

Director

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)

Crew

Irving Lippman — Director of Photography Jerome Thoms — Editor Bernard Gordon — Screenplay David Lang — Screenplay Charles H. Schneer — Producer

Tagline

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

Synopsis

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.

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