Director: Lew Ayres
Writer(s): Bernard Schubert & Olive Cooper (screen play), Karl Brown (adaptation), Wallace MacDonald (original story)
Starring: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry, Henry B. Walthall, Fritz Leiber, George Irving, Irving Pichel, J.M. Kerrigan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Ben Alexander, Oscar Apfel, Clay Clement, Edward Gargan, Russell Hicks, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Douglas Wood, Bodil Rosing, Erville Alderson, John Hyams, Etta McDaniel, Joan Lott, Hooper Atchley, Maurice Brierre, Sonny Bupp, Smiley Burnette, Bob Card, Horace B. Carpenter, Allan Cavan, Lane Chandler, Sally Conlin, Marc Cramer, Earl Eby, Jack Evans, Pat Flaherty, Herman Hack, Lloyd Ingraham, Jack Ingram, Eugene Jackson, Charles King, Ethan Laidlaw, Frankie Marvin, Robert Paige, Warner Richmond, Henry Roquemore, Clinton Rosemond, Helen Seamon, Harry Strang, Charles Unger, Arthur Wanzer, Cecil Watson, Wally West, Clifton Young
Synopsis: Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond’s sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth’s uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South’s own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
Release Date: May 26, 1936 (USA) | Length: 72 min | Genre: Drama, History, War | Certificate: Approved | Note(s): I didn’t find a trailer for this film. Above is the movies intro.