Crash Dive
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.
Plot
USS Corsair, operating in the North Atlantic, hunts out German merchant raiders preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred to submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lieutenant Commander Dewey Connors, 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 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 engaging 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 raise it provides, so he can properly support her. Tension between the men ensues when Connors discovers that the woman Stewart is wooing is Jean. The film culminates in a commando raid by Corsair on an island supply base for the German raiders. After the raid, the two men make peace, and after the Corsairs return to New London, Stewart and Jean are married.
Cast
As appearing in screen credits :| 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 |