Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

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

TMDb 4.35/1/1957•1h 22m

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Original Title

Hellcats of the Navy

Status

Released

Production Companies

Morningside Productions

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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.