Across the Pacific
by John Huston
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Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Keye Luke, Mary Astor, Sydney GreenstreetDirector: John Huston
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 96 unknown-units
Studio: Warner Brothers
Product features:
- Release Date: October 3, 2006
Movie Reviews of Across the Pacific
Movie Review: Witty, entertaining propaganda - good package
Summary: 5 Stars
As a follow up to "The Maltese Falcon" with John Huston directing and Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor paired again, "Across the Pacific" promised to be an entertaining film and so it is. The film is an unbelievable thriller in which Bogart infiltrates a group of Japanese sympathisers plotting to blow up the Panama Canal. Sydney Greenstreet heads the traitors and is as enigmatic as he was in the previous film. The film was made at the time of Pearl Harbour so the plot contrivances are an understandable nod to the current events of the day.
The real interest of the film though is in the amusing by play between Bogart and Astor who were never more relaxed on the screen. They have some very funny moments. The film is beautifully staged by Huston with the exception of some pathetic models of ships. In fact, they are so poor that they add to the unreal comic nature of the film. You can not help but laugh out loud! The DVD preserves the film's beautiful black and white photography in an exceptional print and comes with a load of extras.
First of all, there is an excellent featurette which describes the major role Hollywood would play in the war effort, whether it be with ground breaking films such as "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" or Bette Davis and John Garfield forming the Hollywood Canteen. This is a valuable history lesson. A Warners Blooper reel for 1942 is included and these are always entertaining, particularly if you know your Warner's films.
The DVD also contains a Warners Night at the Movies in which the theme is certainly propaganda. The short film extols the virtues of 4 airman, ordinary men joining the forces for their country. Among the Warners starlets performing is a very young Eleanor Parker. The film is preserved in excellent technicolour and while you may cringe at the naivety and patriotism, one can see how it would have been used as a recruitment tool. One Newsreel item tries valiantly to put a positive spin on the devastation in Pearl Harbour by showing a Jap plane which was shot down. The cartoon is yet another recruiting poster in the form of a draft horse trying to enlist. It is funny in parts, when you are not cringeing. Finally, for coming attractions, there is a superb technicolour trailer for "Captain of the Clouds", a Cagney film which celebrates the Canadian Air Force.
As part of the second set of the Bogart Signature Collections, this DVD is particularly good value.
Summary of Across the Pacific
This is an Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers released on October 3, 2006. Extras include: Vintage newsreel, Patriotic Technicolor short 'Men of the Sky, Classic cartoon 'The Draft Horse', Trailers for Across the Pacific and Captains of the Clouds, Hollywood Helps the Cause featurette, Studio Blooper Reel.Similar DVD Movies
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