The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Flaming Action from the Jungles of Java to China and the Seven Seas!
140 min
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
- Release date
- July 4, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Victor Young
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Cast
- Gary Cooper as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
- Laraine Day as Madeleine
- Signe Hasso as Bettina
- Dennis O'Keefe as Benjamin 'Hoppy' Hopkins
- Carol Thurston as Tremartini (Three Martini)
- Carl Esmond as Lt. Dirk Van Daal
- Paul Kelly as Murdock
- Elliott Reid as William 'Andy' Anderson
- Laurette Luez as Pretty Javanese Girl
- Stanley Ridges as Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
- Renny McEvoy as Johnny Leeweather
- Oliver Thorndike as Alabam
- Philip Ahn as Ping
- Barbara Britton as Ruth
- William Severn as Little English Boy (uncredited)
- Richard Loo as Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
- Douglas Fowley as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Ann Doran as Praying Woman (uncredited)
- Yvonne De Carlo as Native Girl (uncredited)
- Cecil B. DeMille as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
- Irving Bacon as Missionary (uncredited)
- Milton Kibbee as 'Janssen' Passenger (uncredited)
- Gavin Muir as Dutch Military Messenger (uncredited)
- Jack Norton as 'Janssen' Passenger (uncredited)
- Philip Van Zandt as Dutch Gunner (uncredited)
- Amzie Strickland as Native Woman (uncredited)
- George Macready as Dutch Army Captain (uncredited)
Crew
- Cecil B. DeMille · Director
- Alan Le May · Writer
- Charles Bennett · Writer
- Corydon M. Wassell · Writer
- James Hilton · Writer
- Cecil B. DeMille · Producer
- Victor Young · Composer
- Victor Milner · Cinematographer
- William E. Snyder · Cinematographer
- Anne Bauchens · Editor