Crash Dive (1943) on Netflix
Approved19431h 46mDramaRomanceWar
Lt. Ward Stewart leaves PT boats for the submarine USS Corsair, captained by Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors. On a train he meets school teacher Jean Hewlett.
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Plot summary
The submarine USS Corsair operates in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that prey on Allied shipping. The Navy transfers Lt. Ward Stewart from his PT boat to the Corsair. At the New London base, his first meeting with his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, is tense. Connors plans to spend his leave with Jean Hewlett, a New London school teacher, but she must chaperone students on a trip and he declines to go along. Stewart meets Hewlett on a train to Washington, D.C. She resists his attention at first, then falls in love with him.
Cast
- Frederic Brunnas Q Boat Lieutenant (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crash Dive (1943)
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- Crash Dive was Tyrone Power's last film before he was assigned to recruit training; he had already enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
- Ben Carter played messman Oliver Cromwell Jones, a rare developed African-American role in a World War II film; at that time Black sailors could only serve as cooks and messmen, and his character is a confidant to a higher ranking crew member.
- The film may have been partly inspired by the Greenland Patrol, a U.S. Coast Guard unit hunting Nazi weather stations; a station captured in June 1941 had its personnel interned in Boston, and the incident stayed classified until after Pearl Harbor.
