Ronald Reagan
Cmdr. Casey Abbott
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Hellcats of the Navy is a 1957 American black-and-white World War II submarine film drama from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Nathan Juran. The film stars Ronald Reagan and his wife, billed under her screen name Nancy Davis, and Arthur Franz.
Hellcats of the Navy: Directed by Nathan Juran. With Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur. The daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II.
Synopsis. In 1944, toward the end of World War II, Commander Casey Abbott of the United States Navy is assigned the strategic mission to retrieve an underwater mine developed by the Japanese, which is undetectable by radar. Casey and the crew of his submarine, The Starfish , transverse a Japanese shipping route to the edge of the minefield ...
Hellcats of the Navy. 1957 · 1 hr 22 min. TV-PG. Drama · War. A WWII submarine commander, who’s having an affair with a combat diver’s fiancée, comes under scrutiny when he’s forced to leave that diver for dead.
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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.
Hellcats Of The Navy. Set during WWII, a submarine commander faces suspicions that jealousy over a rival who had romantic interests in his sometime-girlfriend led him to abandon a diver sent to steal a top secret new mine during a secret mission inside Japanese waters. 288 IMDb 5.6 1 h 21 min 1957. 13+. Drama · Suspense · Bleak · Emotional.
Hellcats of the Navy (1957) is a World War II submarine movie starring the future US President Ronald Reagan and his wife, billed as Nancy Davis, her then professional name. Married since 1952, this was the only film in which they appeared together.
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Based on a true incident, submarine Commander Casey Abbott (Reagan) leads a daring mission to enter the heavily mined Tsushima Straits to sever a vital link between the Asiatic mainland and the Japanese home islands.
