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  Delmer Daves

  regizor

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  Delmer Daves

  scenarist

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  Cary Grant

  Capitanul Cassidy
• 
  Dane Clark

  Tin Can
• 
  Warner Anderson

  Andy
• 
  Larry Steers

  Army Officer in Conference
• 
  Charles Sherlock

  'Copperfin' Helmsman
• 
  Robert Hutton

  Tommy Adams ('The Kid')

• 
  Carlyle Blackwell Jr.

  Man on phone
• 
  Lane Chandler

  CPO
• 
  John Alvin

  Soundman
• 
  Whit Bissell

  Yo Yo
• 
  Paul Langton

  'Copperfin' Crewman-Barber
• 
  Charles S. Thompson

  Rear Admiral
• 
  Bill Kennedy

  Torpedo gunnery officer

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  Danny Borzage

  Crewman
• 
  Cliff Clark

  Hornet's admiral
• 
  Alan Hale

  'Cookie' Wainwright
• 
  John Forsythe

  Sparks - Sailor
• 
  Eddie Hall

  B-25 crewman
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  Richard Stevens

  Admiral's aide
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  Eleanor Parker

  Mike's wife on record
• 
  Pierre Watkin

  Admiral
• 
  Benson Fong

  Japanese
• 
  John Garfield

  Wolf
• 
  Tom Tully

  Mike Conners
• 
  John Ridgely

  Reserve Officer Raymond
• 
  Herbert Gunn

  Pete, Lieutenant
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  Faye Emerson

  Mrs. Cassidy
• 
  William Prince

  Pills
• 
  Warren Douglas

  Larry
• 
  Peter Whitney

  Dakota