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Director:
John Huston
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Writers:
Richard Macaulay (screenplay)
Robert Carson (serial)
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Release Date:
5 September 1942 (USA) more
Plot:
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Adventure+Astor+Bogart+John Huston=Entertainment more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Humphrey Bogart ... Rick Leland
Mary Astor ... Alberta Marlow

Sydney Greenstreet ... Dr. Lorenz
Charles Halton ... A.V. Smith
Victor Sen Yung ... Joe Totsuiko (as Sen Young)
Roland Got ... Sugi
Lee Tung Foo ... Sam Wing On
Frank Wilcox ... Captain Morrison
Paul Stanton ... Colonel Hart
Lester Matthews ... Canadian Major
John Hamilton ... Court-Martial President
Tom Stevenson ... Unidentified Man
Roland Drew ... Captain Harkness
Monte Blue ... Dan Morton
Chester Gan ... Captain Higoto
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Aloha Means Goodbye (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #8248)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The last-minute screenplay change from Pearl Harbor to the Panama Canal was not implausible. Until the mid 1930s US military exercises concentrated on defending the Panama Canal from air, amphibious & small craft attack and were extensively covered by the press. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: 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. more
Quotes:
Rick Leland: When you're slapped, you're gonna take it and like it. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Play It Again, Sam (1972) more

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9 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
Adventure+Astor+Bogart+John Huston=Entertainment, 10 November 2000
Author: marquis de cinema from Boston, MA

John Huston's second film reunited three of his key actors from The Maltese Falcon(1941). This war time thriller takes place before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Across the Pacific(1942) is about a disgraced solider who tries to redeem himself by acting as a spy for the US government. Humphrey Bogart plays the American spy, Rick Leland in his most cool and suave performance. Leland's mission is to prevent the Japanese from bombing the Panama Canal.

Sydney Greenstreet as Dr. Lorenz gives a performance that's absolutely sinister. He would have made a perfect James Bond Villain had he lived during the 1950's. Across the Pacific(1942) is an entertaining motion picture that realisticly parallels the war that was occuring in the Pacific. Mary Astor is ravishing as the mysterious Alberta. Only the majority of the movie was completed for John Huston went off to join the war effort(another filmmaker involved with the film named Vincent Sherman ended up filming the final scenes).

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