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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.

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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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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 represents one of a select group of a few World War II submarine movies which have won the one single Academy Award in a technical category, that's just only the one Oscar in either special effects or sound editing. These movies include Crash Dive; The Enemy Below; Torpedo Run and U-571. The non-WW II sub-movie, The Hunt for Red October also won just the one Oscar as did the WW 2 part sub-movie 49th Parallel, but for Best Original Story.
This movie had two working titles: 'Submarine School' and 'SS 111'.
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