Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific (1942) is a wartime spy thriller — watch online on iFILM. John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart as Captain Rick Leland, court-martialed out of the US Army in late 1941 and bound for the Orient on a Japanese ship. The disgrace is a cover. He is working undercover.

His two notable fellow passengers are the smooth and talkative Dr. Lenz, played by Sydney Greenstreet, and the cautious Alberta Marlow, played by Mary Astor. The same principal cast that made The Maltese Falcon the previous year, and Huston uses the same method — tension built through dialogue rather than gunfire, with the target of the real operation only becoming clear by the final act. Stream Across the Pacific (1942) in full on iFILM.