Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

Infobox Film
name = Across the Pacific


imdb_id = 0034428
writer = Robert Garson
Richard Macaulay
starring = Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Sydney Greenstreet
director = John Huston
Vincent Sherman
producer = Jack Saper
Jerry Wald
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = September 4, 1942
runtime = 97 min.
language = English

"Across the Pacific" is a 1942 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.

Plot

In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialled and discharged from the U.S. Coastal Artillery after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian army, but is rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the "Genoa Maru", in Halifax to make his way to China via the Panama Canal to fight for Chiang Kai-shek.

On board, he meets the attractive, mysterious Alberta Marlow (Mary Astor), Japanese-American Joe Totsuiko (Victor Sen Yung), and Dr. Lorenz (Sydney Greenstreet), who makes no secret of his admiration of the Japanese and is thus not popular in the Philippines, where he resides. Leland, in his turn, makes it clear to Lorenz that he has no loyalty toward his country and would gladly fight for whoever is willing to pay for his services.

During a stop in New York, Leland meets with Colonel Hart (Paul Stanton), a U.S. undercover intelligence officer, revealing that he is in fact still a loyal American. Lorenz is known to be an enemy agent, but Hart and Leland are uncertain about Marlow. Upon returning to the ship, Leland surprises a Filipino man who is about to shoot Lorenz, thus gaining Lorenz's confidence.

As they arrive in Panama, the captain announces that the ship has been denied passage through the canal and will be forced to sail around Cape Horn. Leland, Marlow and Lorenz disembark to wait for another ship. Several crates are unloaded from the ship addressed to a certain Dan Morton at the Bountiful plantation.

Lorenz asks Leland, who was once stationed in the area, to procure up-to-date schedules for the planes which patrol the area. Leland meets with his local contact, A.V. Smith (Charles Halton), and convinces him to provide the real schedules, as Lorenz could easily find out if he were handed fake ones. It is revealed that the date is December 6, 1941 - the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Having delivered the schedules after a short quibble with Lorenz over their price, Leland is knocked out. He wakes up several hours later and finds out that both Lorenz and Marlow have left the hotel. He immediately calls Smith and warns him to change the patrol schedule, then heads out to the Bountiful plantation, where he sees a torpedo bomber being prepared. He is caught, however, and brought inside to Lorenz and Marlow.

Marlow turns out to be the daughter of the plantation's owner, Dan Morton (Monte Blue), a drunk who is being used. To Leland's relief, Marlow's only stake in the affair is concern for her father.

Lorenz reveals that they killed Smith before he could do anything and that they are planning to torpedo the Panama Canal Locks. At the last minute, Leland overpowers Totsuiko (Marlow's father is killed in the process). Leland takes over a machine gun and shooting down the plane, piloted by no less than a Japanese prince, as it tries to take off. A firefight ensues between Leland and Lorenz's men. At the end, a defeated Lorenz tries to commit seppuku, but his nerve fails and he begs Leland to shoot him. Leland refuses, as Lorenz has "an appointment with Army intelligence".

Cast

*Humphrey Bogart as Rick Leland
*Mary Astor as Alberta Marlow
*Sydney Greenstreet as Dr. Lorenz
*Charles Halton as A.V. Smith
*Victor Sen Yung as Joe Totsuiko
*Roland Got as Sugi
*Lee Tung Foo as Sam Wing On, a friend of Rick's in the canal zone
*Frank Wilcox as Captain Morrison
*Paul Stanton as Colonel Hart
*Lester Matthews as Canadian Major
*John Hamilton as Court-Martial President

References


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