Across the Pacific: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung, Roland Got, Lee Tung Foo, Frank Wilcox, Paul Stanton, Lester Matthews, John Hamilton, Tom Stevenson, Arthur Edeson, John Huston, Vincent Sherman, Frank Magee, Jack Saper, Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Carson: Amazon.ca: Video

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Across the Pacific (1942) ... Humphrey Bogart ... John Huston (Director) (2000)", Mar 12 2011

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Across the Pacific (VHS Tape)

Warner Bros. Pictures presents "ACROSS THE PACIFIC" (1942) (97 min/B&W) -- Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Keye Luke & Richard Loo

Directed by John Huston

Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martial led in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a stop off in Panama. While there he discovers Japanese plot to attack the Panama Canal along with the Pearl Harbor attack.

Huston's direction is really worth looking at, especially visually stunning during a sequence at a movie theater on the big screen. Without his obvious presence and Bogart, this film would have just been another propaganda story of espionage.

Bogart, of course, carried the story line here and it was a delight to watch his enigmatic character change from one of calculated indifference to that of relentless determination.

Sydney Greenstreet was excellent as a jovial yet cunning Japanese sympathizer and Mary Astor played a doubtful role with the same mental adroitness she had displayed in "The Maltese Falcon."

The three Maltese Falcon leads and director teamed up for this enjoyable WW2 thriller

BIOS:
1. John Huston [Director]
Date of Birth: 5 August 1906 - Nevada, Missouri
Date of Death: 28 August 1987 - Middletown, Rhode Island

2. Humphrey Bogart
Date of Birth: 25 December 1899 - New York City, New York
Date of Death: 14 January 1957 - Los Angeles, California

3. Mary Astor [aka: Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke]
Date of Birth: 3 May 1906 - Quincy, Illinois
Date of Death: 25 September 1987 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

4. Sydney Greenstreet [aka: Sydney Hughes Greenstreet]
Date of Birth: 27 December 1879 - Sandwich, Kent, England, UK
Date of Death: 18 January 1954 - Hollywood, California

Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars
Performance: 5 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars
Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]

Total Time: 97 min on VHS ~ Warner Bros. Pictures ~ (03/07/2000)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Rube Goldberg movie, Jun 10 2004

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For only his second feature director John Huston nearly got sandbagged by this Warner quickie. The script is literally all over the map and was plainly rushed into production after Pearl Harbor. To his credit, Huston manages to make somthing watchable out of a screwball plot about an American artillery officer, Humphrey Bogart, who is mustered out of the service on a phony rap so he can spy on the Nips, and have a romantic ocean voyage with Mary Astor, and thwart Japanese sympathizer Sydney Greenstreet's plan to blow up the Panama Canal. Whew. This was a pretty poor reward for having made "The Maltese Falcon" but that was the way of the studio system, and Huston manages to cross the finish line before the contraption collapses, no mean feat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars FIVE star. please, if you don't mind . . ., July 4 2002

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. . .I mean, come on ... we are comparing this Bogey/Greenstreet/ Astor vehicle, with the wretched tripe cavorting about in the mini-mall theatres to-day aren't we ? I mean, if we aren't venturing to rescure modern audiences from current commercial hypnosis, what ARE we indeed doing with these...reviews, please, may I be so BOLD as to inquire ?

At any rate, I have purchased and reviewed this film, first time in some years . . . and it is still fun -- and chilling.

Bogey and Astor are still fun as the new infighting young couple ... Greenstreet is still as sophisticated and sleazy as ever ... and yet not repititiously so. Truly, the man never really "repeats" himself, in spite of all, film after film.

The oriental characters are great, playing both the good and the evil ... and are great characterizations, whether the traditional oriental, or the Americanized/ "hey, pops!" types (yes, I do believe I recognize Charlie Chan's "number-one son!" actor -- what genius ! and pleasure !)

The racing espionage plot does nothing to disappoint, and holds its own with anything that has appeared since... and I can't spoil it for you . . .

(Oh, you've seen better, have you? We'll, do tell!)

... suffice it to say that you will be far from disappointed with the sweet blend of thrills and comedy this 98-minute creation will grace you with ...

... and hopefully it will steer you directly into the rest of the Bogart / Greenstreet / Lorre vehicles, all together and seperately (no, Lorre isn't in this one,--except in Spirit...)

I hope I've given you enough of a background to danger, to regard this black legion by. So show appreciation for all my efforts, and please do take now, this journey into fear ...

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4.0 out of 5 stars ACROSS THE PACIFIC
I was eager to see this film because it reteamed THE MALTESE FALCON leads (Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor), and the Director (John Huston).It did not dissapiont. Read more

Published on May 27 2001 by Brian

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Huston/Bogart collaboration
Don't believe it: They get from Halifax to the Panama Canal; they don't even reach the Pacific! What's up with the title? Read more

Published on April 19 2001 by traef