Crash Dive

Crash Dive

106 mins | Drama, Action, Thriller, Adventure, Romance, War | April 22, 1943

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

Crash Dive

106 mins | Drama, Action, Thriller, Adventure, Romance, War | April 22, 1943

Crash Dive
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Crash Dive
Directors Archie Mayo
Writers Jo Swerling, W.R. Burnett

Cast

Tyrone Power

as Lt. Ward Stewart

Anne Baxter

as Jean Hewlett

Dana Andrews

as Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors

James Gleason

as Chief Mike 'Mac' McDonnell

May Whitty

as Grandmother

Harry Morgan

as Brownie

Ben Carter

as Oliver Cromwell Jones

Stanley Andrews

as Shipwrecked Captain (uncredited)

John Archer

as Curly Bowman (uncredited)

Gene Rizzi

as Seaman Rizzi (uncredited)

Frederic Brunn

as Q Boat Lieutenant (uncredited)

Frank Conroy

as Capt. Bryson

Fred Aldrich

as German Seaman

David Bacon

as Lieutenant

Brooks Benedict

as Angry Man at Hotel Registration Desk

Lulu Mae Bohrman

as Undetermined Secondary Role

Dorothy Brent

as Schoolgirl

Paul E. Burns

as Simmons - Desk Clerk

Harry Carter

as Sailor

Gene Collins

as Boy in Lifeboat

James Conaty

as Hotel Desk Clerk

Frank Dawson

as Henry the Butler

James Eagles

as Officer

Edward Earle

as Wreckage Victim

Chester Gan

as Lee Wong

Thurston Hall

as Senator from Texas

Sally Harper

as Teenage Student

George Holmes

as Crew Member

Kathleen Howard

as Miss Bromley

Sue Jolley

as Schoolgirl

Florence Lake

as Doris - Jean's Roommate

Peter Leeds

as Shore Police

Trudy Marshall

as Telephone Operator

Leila McIntyre

as Senator's Wife

Betty McKinney

as Schoolgirl

Edward McWade

as Crony

James Metcalf

as Undetermined Secondary Role

Hans Moebus

as German Officer

Edmund Mortimer

as Man at Hotel Registration Desk

John Mylong

as Captain of Submarine

Netta Packer

as Mother

Tom Quinn

as Hotel Guest

Otto Reichow

as German Signalman

Lionel Royce

as German Q-Boat Commander

Floyd Shackelford

as Porter

Paul Stanton

as Officer

Charles Tannen

as Seaman Hammond

Ruth Thomas

as Schoolgirl

Sigfrid Tor

as German Soldier

Nicholas Vehr

as Russian Officer

Hans von Morhart

as Y Gun Operator

Minor Watson

as Adm. Bob Stewart

Cecil Weston

as Woman

Bruce Wong

as First Waiter

William Yetter Sr.

as Tanker Lieutenant