Across The Pacific (1942)

On September 4, 1942,Warner Brothers released the spy film Across the Pacific (no resemblance whatsoever to the 1926 film of the same name) starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet. The war had disrupted the film in a number of ways. The first was that the original script had Bogie thwarting a fictitious Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After December 7, 1941, the script was quickly rewritten and the attack moved to Panama. The other was the departure of John Huston for military service. Both Huston and the film’s second director, Vincent Sherman, blamed the other for what was called an “improbable ending.”