Saturday, February 12, 2022

Across the Pacific (1942)

 An undercover agent traveling on a freighter ship investigates a Japanese plot that could provoke the U.S. into entering World War II.

Espionage thriller with a mediocre plot yet mildly entertaining; it is historically curious for being based on a literary source which more or less "predicted" the attack on Pearl Harbor, a few months before it took place. Since the movie was made after the real-life attack, they changed the target of the fictitious attack attempt to Panama. For some reason, they chose a title which makes no sense at all: in the movie version they never get to the Pacific Ocean.

Rating: 44

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