On This Day...Devil and the Deep (1932)

 Released today back in 1932, Devil and the Deep was Cary Grant's 4th full length feature film.

Summary:

Where Cary Grant’s Naval officer is transferred due to the suspicions of jealous Naval Commander Charles Sturm (Charles Laughton).  Miserable through her husband’s obsessive behaviour, Charles’ wife Diana (Tallulah Bankhead), falls into the arms of a handsome lieutenant (Gary Cooper)….But when her husband finds out about the affair, he plots revenge.

Cast:

Tallulah Bankhead...Diana Sturm

Gary Cooper...Lt. Sempter

Charles Laughton...Cmdr. Charles Sturm

Cary Grant...Lt. Jaeckel

Paul Porcasi...Hassan

Juliette Compton...Mrs. Planet

Henry Kolker...Hutton

Dorothy Christy...Mrs. Crimp

Arthur Hoyt...Mr. Planet

Gordon Westcott...Lt. Toll

James Dugan...Condover (as Jimmie Dugan)

Did You Know?

Cary Grant was originally set to play Lt. Sempter.

At no point is the navy that Charles Laughton, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper belong to named. That the officers are English and others American would not make sense in the British or U.S. navy, but no flags or emblems are seen, and their uniforms belong to no known country on earth.

This is the only film featuring both Gary Cooper and Cary Grant as the movie's leading men but they never appear together onscreen. However, in Alice in Wonderland (1933), Grant played the Mock Turtle and Cooper played the White Knight, having their only movie scene together (of sorts) as the entire cast appears in the tea party scene.

Tagline:

Twenty men sent to the bottom of the sea-for one woman's sin! 

(Print Ad-Toledo News-Bee, ((Toledo, Ohio)) 1 September 1932)

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Directed by Marion Gering

Produced and distributed by Paramount Publix

Running time: 70 minutes.

Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36.