Across the Pacific
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| Directed by |
John Huston Vincent Sherman |
| Produced by | Jack Saper Jerry Wald |
| Screenplay by | Richard Macaulay |
| Based on | "Aloha Means Good-bye" (1942 The Saturday Evening Post story) by Robert Carson |
| Starring |
Humphrey Bogart Mary Astor Sydney Greenstreet |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Frank Magee |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals) |
Across the Pacific is a 1942 American spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet. Despite the title, the action of the film never progresses across the Pacific, concluding in Panama.
The title had been used before by Warner Brothers for a 1926 silent adventure film by the same name starring Monte Blue, who also has a small role in this film. However, the plots of the two films bear no resemblance to each other.
Initially, it was planned that the film would portray an attempt to avert a Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor. When the real-life Pearl Harbor bombing occurred, the script was quickly rewritten to change the location of the planned attack to Panama.
Director John Huston was called up to military service during filming; he claimed he left at the point near the end of the film in which Bogart is trapped in a house at gun-point. Vincent Sherman finished directing the film, minus the script which Huston took with him, explaining "Bogie will know how to get out". An implausible escape and plot wrap-up was shot, which Huston declared "lacked credibility".
In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialed and discharged from the U.S. Coast Artillery after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian Army, but is coldly rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the Genoa Maru, in Halifax, apparently to make his way to China via the Panama Canal to fight for Chiang Kai-shek.
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