- HD 1080
- Runtime: 82m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Nathan Juran
- Stars: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, William Leslie
- keywords: submarine, love triangle, nurse
- Production_studio: Morningside Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: Down . . . Down . . . Down . . . into enemy waters with the fightin' hellcats of the U.S. sub pack !
- The Hellcats of the Navy is featured in the top rankings of 1957
- #38 in Top Thriller Movies of 1957
- #31 in Top War Movies of 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 convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.