The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966): Cast, Plot & Where to Watch

The dull, routine life at the small American Navy weather station on Gow Island in the South Pacific is upended when a C-47 refueling mission arrives with scientists, an Air Force flight crew, and a cargo of Antarctic specimens. As the plane nears the island, something within the cargo shifts, a crewman screams, and he plunges to his death. Back at the base, the transport’s radio crackles with screams and gunfire, and the aircraft suddenly swerves, crashes on Gow Island, and crushes the control tower and the island’s only two‑way radio, leaving the runway blocked and the communications severed. Lieutenant Charles Brown [Anthony Eisley] leads the response, coordinating a small rescue party from the weather station with Navy nurse Nora Hall [Mamie Van Doren] and biologist Dr.