Hellcats of the Navy is a movie starring
Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy Davis (her then professional name) --- a moral WWII submarine tale--the only film in which they appear together. Reagan is Captain Casey Abbott, a submarine commander who is ordered to undertake a dangerous mission which sees him attempting to cut off the flow of supplies between
China and
Japan in the heavily mined waters off the Asiatic mainland. When a diver, who is Abbott's competitor for the affections of a nurse (Davis) back at home, gets into a dangerous situation, Abbott must struggle to keep his personal and professional lives separate in dealing with the crisis.
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