Director Dan Curtis pulls out all the stops in this adaptation of author Herman Wouk's sprawling World War II opus, a landmark television series starring Robert Mitchum as Captain "Pug" Henry, head of an illustrious American naval family. Co-starring Polly Bergen as Pug's wife, Hart Bochner and Jane Seymour as Natalie Jastrow, the film encompasses plot lines ranging from key naval battles to the destruction of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.