Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
| Directing | Nathan H. Juran | Director |
| Writing | Bernard Gordon | Screenplay |
| Writing | David Lang | Screenplay |
| Production | Charles H. Schneer | Producer |
| Camera | Irving Lippman | Director of Photography |
| Art | Rudi Feld | Art Direction |
| Editing | Jerome Thoms | Editor |
| Writing | Charles A. Lockwood | Book |
| Writing | Hans Christian Adamson | Book |
| Writing | David Lang | Screenstory |
