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Bogey fighting Japanese spies on the high seas in 1941...
The movie reunites Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet from 1941's "Maltese Falcon" and achieves a lot of the same chemistry.
The gem from acclaimed director John Huston has Humphrey Bogart as a disgraced US Army officer off to the orient to sell his artillery expertise to the highest bidder, Chang-kia Shek or Hirohito, it doesn't matter to him.
On the way there, he has a whirlwind romance with Mary Astor (a small-town girl on a secret mission of her own) and gets recruited to pass information to The Japanese by Sydney Greenstreet.
The movie began production before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but was released a few months after.
The dialogue between Bogart and Astor is much funnier than in "Maltese Falcon" and they are a much better couple for it.
All the actors playing Japanese speak horrible Japanese (Sydney Greenstreet actually speaks Japanese better than the actors playing Japanese).
The reason for this is simple, all the actors portraying Japanese are, in fact, Chinese, because, by the time the movie started shooting major scenes, all the Japanese in California had been interned in prison camps.
Another "fun fact", despite the name of the film, none of the characters in the movie actually get to the Pacific. The ship they are on sails from Canada to New York, and to the Panama Canal Zone where the climax takes place.
The movie reunites Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet from 1941's "Maltese Falcon" and achieves a lot of the same chemistry.
The gem from acclaimed director John Huston has Humphrey Bogart as a disgraced US Army officer off to the orient to sell his artillery expertise to the highest bidder, Chang-kia Shek or Hirohito, it doesn't matter to him.
On the way there, he has a whirlwind romance with Mary Astor (a small-town girl on a secret mission of her own) and gets recruited to pass information to The Japanese by Sydney Greenstreet.
The movie began production before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but was released a few months after.
The dialogue between Bogart and Astor is much funnier than in "Maltese Falcon" and they are a much better couple for it.
All the actors playing Japanese speak horrible Japanese (Sydney Greenstreet actually speaks Japanese better than the actors playing Japanese).
The reason for this is simple, all the actors portraying Japanese are, in fact, Chinese, because, by the time the movie started shooting major scenes, all the Japanese in California had been interned in prison camps.
Another "fun fact", despite the name of the film, none of the characters in the movie actually get to the Pacific. The ship they are on sails from Canada to New York, and to the Panama Canal Zone where the climax takes place.
