Crash Dive (1943) | |
| Director(s) | Archie Mayo |
| Producer(s) | Milton Sperling, Lee S. Marcus (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller/Suspense, War |
| Top Topics | World War II |
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Crash Dive (1943) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Archie Mayo and produced by Milton Sperling and Lee S. Marcus.
SYNOPSIS
This romantic adventure, set during WWII, features two Navy men vying for the love of the same woman. While heading to Washington, Lieutenant Ward Stewart meets teacher Jean Hewlitt, quickly falls for her, and eventually succeeds in gaining her affection. However, Lieutenant Stewart soon discovers that his new girlfriend is already engaged to his commanding officer. Further complications develop when both officers get assigned to the same submarine and must set off together on a dangerous mission to destroy a Nazi base.
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Oliver Cromwell Jones:
Mac, it's none of my business, and it certainly isn't up to me to give you advice, but if I had a weak heart ...
Chief 'Mac' McDonnell: What are you talking about?
Oliver Cromwell Jones: A man don't take nitroglycerine for dandruff.
[Several submarine crewmen are preparing to go ashore on a commando raid]
Oliver Cromwell Jones: [Looks around at all the blackened faces and hands of the other crewmen] I'm the only born commando here!
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Chief 'Mac' McDonnell: What are you talking about?
Oliver Cromwell Jones: A man don't take nitroglycerine for dandruff.
[Several submarine crewmen are preparing to go ashore on a commando raid]
Oliver Cromwell Jones: [Looks around at all the blackened faces and hands of the other crewmen] I'm the only born commando here!
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Facts about
Neither the later pictures Crash Dive nor its sequel Counter Measures (aka Crash Dive 2) are remakes of this film. They merely all share being submarine movies and being part of the sub-movie genre with a submarine term title.
Final film for Tyrone Power prior to entering military service as a private. He is credited in the film as as Tyrone Power U.S.M.C.R. On 1 October 1942, Power was allowed to defer the start of his military duties in order to complete production on this movie which did not finish shooting until mid-November 1942. Power did not star in another movie until 1946 when he appeared in The Razor's Edge. At the time of Power's death in 1958, he was a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.
This movie had two working titles: 'Submarine School' and 'SS 111'.
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Final film for Tyrone Power prior to entering military service as a private. He is credited in the film as as Tyrone Power U.S.M.C.R. On 1 October 1942, Power was allowed to defer the start of his military duties in order to complete production on this movie which did not finish shooting until mid-November 1942. Power did not star in another movie until 1946 when he appeared in The Razor's Edge. At the time of Power's death in 1958, he was a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.
This movie had two working titles: 'Submarine School' and 'SS 111'.
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