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Hellcats of the Navy

4.7 82 mins War   Drama   Thriller   1957
Morningside Productions  
Director(s): Nathan Juran

Release Date: 01 Wed, May 1957

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.

Casts of Hellcats of the Navy

Ronald Reagan

as Cmdr. Casey Abbott (Captain, USS Starfish)

Nancy Reagan

as Nurse Lt. Helen Blair

Arthur Franz

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

Robert Arthur

as Freddy Warren

William Leslie

as Lt. Paul Prentice

William Phillips

as Carroll (as William Phillips)

Harry Lauter

as Lt. (j.g.) Wes Barton

Michael Garth

as Bill aka Lt. Charlie

Joe Turkel

as Chick (as Joseph Turkel)

Don Keefer

as Jug

Chester W. Nimitz

as Himself (in prologue) (uncredited)

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