Hellcats of the Navy

Name: Hellcats of the Navy
Director: Nathan Juran
Genre: War, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1957-05-01
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 4.3
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, William Leslie

Directed by Nathan Juran

War

Drama

Thriller

19571h 22m4.3

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.