Crash Dive

Crash Dive

Tyrone Power -- Leading a reckless crew on the war's most daring mission!

NR 1943 · 106 min · ★ 6.4 · War, Romance, Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller

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.

Directed by Archie Mayo · Written by W.R. Burnett

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Tyrone Power Lt. Ward Stewart
Anne Baxter Jean Hewlett
Dana Andrews Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors
James Gleason Chief Mike 'Mac' McDonnell
May Whitty Grandmother
Harry Morgan Brownie
Ben Carter Oliver Cromwell Jones
Stanley Andrews Shipwrecked Captain (uncredited)
John Archer Curly Bowman (uncredited)
Gene Rizzi Seaman Rizzi (uncredited)
Frederic Brunn Q Boat Lieutenant (uncredited)
Frank Conroy Capt. Bryson

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