Submarine Patrol

Nov 25, 1938

1h 35m

★ 6.6

The Big Parade of the Navy!

Overview

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Submarine Patrol Trailers

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Cast

Perry Townsend III

Richard Greene

Susan Leeds

Nancy Kelly

Lt. (j.g.) John C. Drake

Preston Foster

Capt. Leeds

George Bancroft

Ellsworth 'Spuds' Fickett, cook

Slim Summerville

CWO 'Sails' Quincannon

J. Farrell MacDonald

Seaman Rocky Haggerty

Warren Hymer

Seaman Pinky Brett

Douglas Fowley

Seaman Johnny Miller

Dick Hogan

Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'

Elisha Cook Jr.

Seaman Irving Goldfarb

George E. Stone

McAllison

John Carradine

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