Summer Under the Stars: Humphrey Bogart

Star of the Day: Humphrey Bogart

Across the Pacific (1942): "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."

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Hometown shoutout! This starts off in Halifax. Also how on the nose that a woman named Alberta would be from Medicine Hat. 

Anyway, enough about Canada. This was billed as a melodrama in the articles I read but I'd classify it more as a thriller. It's certainly dark and sexy. Some of the scenes between Bogie and Mary Astor? The censors must have been reeling!

A fine tale, smart and sophisticated.