Across the Pacific

1942
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1h 37m

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6.8/10

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Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Roland Got in Across the Pacific (1942)

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B-Action Jungle Adventure One-Person Army Action Political Drama Action Adventure Drama Romance War

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal z... Read allIn December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Directors
- John Huston
- Vincent Sherman
Writers
- Richard Macaulay
- Robert Carson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

5.5K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- John Huston
- Vincent Sherman
Writers
- Richard Macaulay
- Robert Carson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

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Trivia
Director Vincent Sherman met with John Huston just before Huston left the project to join the United States Army Signal Corps to shoot documentaries for the war effort.

The two directors conferred just before they were about to shoot the scene in which Leland is trapped in the movie theatre and three assassins are trying to kill him.

"How does he get out?" Sherman asked. Huston replied, "That's your problem! I'm off to the war!"

John Huston then went off to join the war effort before the film was finished, taking the film script with him, explaining "Bogie will know how to get out." The studio's solution to the problem was to discard Huston's footage of the impossible dilemma and write a new scenario. Vincent Sherman directed the final scenes.

Goofs
The background for the opening titles is a map of the Panama Canal. The orientation of the map and the compass is correct, but the labeling of the map is incorrect. In fact, the Atlantic end of the canal and the city of Colon are at the upper left (Northwest), and the Pacific end of the canal and Panama City are at the lower right (Southeast). The map is correctly labeled behind the closing credits.

Quotes
Rick Leland: [comparing his gun to Dr. Lorenz's, which he points at him] Remember: mine is bigger than yours!

Crazy credits
Opening Card:

Governor's Island

New York

Alternate versions
Also available in a computer colorized version.

Connections
Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Across the Pacific (1959)

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6/10

The Warm Up...

There are films that are so connected to their times, when taken out of context there's no rhyme, no reason for portrayals, but factor in the great betrayals, lets you accept the extremes, of paradigms. As Rick Leland is disgraced and then ejected, from a role that he would like to have perfected, leaves him in a tricky place, after losing all his face, and he's become quite disengaged and disaffected. On a boat he gets to meet curious souls, who have ambitions to dispose and take controls, as the layers are peeled back, looks like there might be an attack, by the folks who like to eat food out of bowls.

Of its time.