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Don Winslow of the Navy is a american film of genre Action directed by Ray Taylor released in USA on 6 january 1942 with Anne Nagel
Don Winslow of the Navy (1942)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 6 january 1942
OriginUSA
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Rating64%
Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) is a Universal Pictures film serial based on the comic strip Don Winslow of the Navy by Commander Frank V. Martinek.
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Commander Don Winslow is returned to the Office of Naval Intelligence from his command of his cruiser to investigate strange events on the Pacific island of Tangita, noticeably a ship being torpedoed. He discovers that there is a ring of saboteurs and enemy agents who are trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort. Though the US Navy is preparing to build a naval base on Tangita, an unknown foreign power secretly has a subterranean submarine base beneath the island with the goal of preventing the American base from being completed'Actors
Anne Nagel
(Misty Gaye)
John Litel
(Spencer Merlin)
Walter Sande
(Lt. Red Pennington)
John Holland
(Paul Barsac)
Samuel S. Hinds
(The CINCUS [Ch. 1])
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