Hellcats of the Navy

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 1, 1957

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Columbia Pictures,Morningside Productions

Cast

Joe Turkel,Don Keefer,Chester W. Nimitz,Ronald Reagan,Robert Arthur,William Leslie,Arthur Franz,Michael Garth,Nancy Reagan,Harry Lauterand 1 more

Director

Nathan Juran

Writer

Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson,David Lang,Bernard Gordon

Producer

Charles H. Schneer

Cinematography

Irving Lippman

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0050500