Hellcats of the Navy

May 1, 1957

1h 22m

★ 4.3

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

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.

Genres

War

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Morningside Productions

Hellcats of the Navy Trailers

Cast

Cmdr. Casey Abbott (Captain, USS Starfish)

Ronald Reagan

Nurse Lt. Helen Blair

Nancy Reagan

Lt. Cmdr. Don Landon (XO, USS Starfish)

Arthur Franz

Freddy Warren

Robert Arthur

Lt. Paul Prentice

William Leslie

Carroll (as William Phillips)

William Phillips

Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton

Harry Lauter

Bill aka Lt. Charlie

Michael Garth

Chick (as Joseph Turkel)

Joe Turkel

Jug

Don Keefer

Himself (in prologue) (uncredited)

Chester W. Nimitz

Captain Jim Leslie, a US Air Force pilot, is transferred to a remote Alaskan base not far from the Soviet border. Here he meets his old friend Harris again and falls in love with Brenda, the commander's daughter. He then comes into conflict with her fiancé, Senator Gordon Gray. At his instigation, he is sent on a dangerous mission with Harris and the navigator Hester: During a storm, the buoys deployed to locate Soviet submarines must be checked. During the emergency landing on an ice floe, Harris suffers a life-threatening injury. They are in Soviet territory, but in view of the situation Jim disregards the radio ban and sends a distress signal. A Soviet submarine appears, Harris is operated on and they are helped to get the plane ready for take-off. Arriving at the base, Jim is arrested. Brenda turns her back on him.

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