Crash Dive
| Crash Dive | |
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 Theatrical poster |
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| Directed by | Archie Mayo |
| Produced by | Milton Sperling |
| Written by | W.R. Burnett (story) Jo Swerling |
| Starring | Tyrone Power Anne Baxter Dana Andrews |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Editing by | Ray Curtiss Walter Thompson |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) |  April 22, 1943 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English/German |
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.
[edit] 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 (Power), 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 (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 (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.
[edit] Cast
As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified):
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| 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 | Lt. J.G. "Brownie" Brown |
| Ben Carter | Oliver Cromwell Jones |
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