Hellcats of the Navy

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. The story of the film is based on the nonfiction book Hellcats of the Sea by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and Hans Christian Adamson.

The results arouse ill feelings in the crew and especially Abbotts executive officer Lt. Commander Landon Arthur Franz who asks his captain to let him air his views in confidence. The results lead Abbott to write in Landons efficiency report that he should never be given command of a naval vessel, resulting in further ill feeling between the two.Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz endorses the film on screen at the start of the movie, and is also later played, as a character, by actor Selmer Jackson. Reagan noted in his autobiography that he was disappointed in the film overall, having expected a result more like Destination Tokyo, a major Warner Bros. film of a decade previous. The diminishing status of the films he was offered led to his leaving the big screen. ........

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