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The film's storyline is based on operations by United States Navy Underwater Demolition Teams, popularly known as "frogmen", against the Japanese Army and naval forces. It was the first such film about scuba diving and became a popular cultural hit. Following the opening credits, The Frogmen has an on-screen written statement:
The Frogmen (1951), starring Dana Andrews and Richard Widmark. World War II film based on the Underwater Demolition Teams. Contemporary UDT members appear in several sequences. [citation needed] Underwater Warrior (1958) directed by Andrew Marton is based on the memoirs of Lieutenant-Commander Francis Douglas Fane, Naked Warriors.
Frogman (also Tongue Man), a villain in the 2013 Indian film Krrish 3; Frogmen, an unaired TV-movie starring O.J. Simpson; Frogman, a horror film based on the legend of the Loveland frog, was released in 2024.
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Out of the 500 to 600 applicants who volunteer for the course each year, only a handful make it and graduate into the ranks of the Frogmen. Since the unit's inception in the late 1950s, there have ...
Series 7: The Contenders is a 2001 American satirical dark comedy film written and directed by Daniel Minahan.The film is presented as a marathon of the seventh series of an American reality television show called The Contenders, where six people, picked at random from a national lottery, are each given a pistol and forced to hunt and kill each other for the cameras.
In the U.S. Navy, frogmen were officially phased out in 1983 and all active duty frogmen were transferred to SEAL units. In 1989, during the U.S. invasion of Panama, a team of four U.S. Navy SEALs using rebreathers conducted a combat swimmer attack on the Presidente Porras, a gunboat and yacht belonging to Manuel Noriega.
Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances.