Crash Dive
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Director Archie Mayo Initial DVD release May 25, 2004 Duration Country United States | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Drama Music director David Buttolph Language English, German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer W.R. Burnett , Jo Swerling Release date April 22, 1943 (1943-04-22) Cast Tyrone Power (Lt. Ward Stewart), Anne Baxter (Jean Hewlett), Dana Andrews (Lt. Cdr. Dewey Connors), James Gleason (Chief Mike 'Mac' McDonnell), Dame May Whitty (Grandmother), Harry Morgan (Brownie)Similar movies Destination Tokyo (1943), We Dive at Dawn (1943), Operation Pacific (1951), Submarine Command (1951), The Enemy Below (1957) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crash Dive is a World War II film in Technicolor released in 1943. It was directed by Archie Mayo, written by Jo Swerling and W.R. Burnett, and starred Tyrone Power, Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter. The film was the last for Power, already enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, before assignment to recruit training also known as boot camp.
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Plot
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 (Tyrone Power), has been transferred 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 (Dana Andrews), 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 (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
His infatuation with PT boats irritates Connors but the two become friends after a combat action with a Q ship in which Connors is injured and Stewart sinks it. Connors, unbeknownst to Stewart, is already in love with Jean but delays marrying her until he gains a promotion to commander and the commensurate pay it provided so he could properly support her financially in his view. Tension between the men ensues when Connors discovers that the woman Stewart is wooing is Jean. The film culminates in a commando raid by the Corsair on an island supply base for the German raiders. After the raid, the men make peace, and soon after the Corsair 's return to New London, Stewart and Jean are married.
Cast
As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):
Awards
The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (Fred Sersen, Roger Heman Sr.) at the 16th Academy Awards.
References
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