Across the Pacific (1926 film)

1926 film

Across the Pacific

Film poster

Directed by| Roy del Ruth
Written by| Darryl Zanuck (adaptation)
Based on| Across the Pacific
1904 novel
by Charles Blaney
Produced by| Darryl Zanuck
Starring| Monte Blue
Cinematography| Byron Haskin
Frank Kesson
Distributed by| Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (as A Warner Brothers Production)

Release date

* October 2, 1926 (1926-10-02) (United States)

Running time

| 78 minutes
Country| United States
Languages| Silent (English intertitles) with Vitaphone (music score and sound effects)
Budget| $214,000[1]
Box office| $352,000[1]

Across the Pacific[2] is a 1926 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Warner Bros., directed by Roy del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was based on a 1900 play by Charles Blaney and J. J. McCloskey. The play had been filmed before in 1914 with Dorothy Dalton.[3][4] It is unknown, but the film might have been released with a Vitaphone soundtrack.

Myrna Loy as Roma in the film.

## Plot

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After his father brings disgrace on his family, Monte joins the Spanish–American War (April–August 1898) and goes with his regiment to the Philippines. Although he has a sweetheart back home, Claire Marsh, he is enlisted to romance a mixed race girl, Roma, who knows the whereabouts of the Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo. Monte must keep up the ruse even when Claire comes to the islands to visit him. He finally gets the information that he needs but not before he is branded a deserter and then must prove his mettle on the battlefield. When the insurrection is squelched and Aguinaldo is captured, Monte is able to explain everything to Claire, and the couple are reunited.

## Cast

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* Monte Blue as Monte
* Jane Winton as Claire Marsh
* Myrna Loy as Roma
* Charles Stevens as Emilio Aguinaldo
* Tom Wilson as Tom
* Walter McGrail as Captain Grover
* Herbert Prior as Colonel Marsh
* Edgar Kennedy as Corporal Ryan
* Theodore Lorch as Aguinaldo's Agent
* Abraham Jacob Hollandersky as old tough in bar scene

## Box office

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According to Warner Bros. records the film earned $252,000 domestically and $100,000 foreign.[1]

## Preservation

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With no prints of Across the Pacific located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.[6]

## See also

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* List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

## References

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1. ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
2. ^ 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV
3. ^ White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. pp. 4–5\. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.4-5&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-520-20969-9&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Across+the+Pacific+(1926+film)" class="Z3988">
4. ^ Across the Pacific (1914) at IMDb
5. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Across the Pacific (1926)
6. ^ Across the Pacific at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers 1926 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Across the Pacific (1926 film).

* Across the Pacific at IMDb
* Across the Pacific at the TCM Movie Database
* Across the Pacific at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
* ​Across the Pacific​ at the Internet Broadway Database (source material)

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* Eve's Lover (1925)
* Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
* Hogan's Alley (1925)
* The Man Upstairs (1926)
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* Footloose Widows (1926)
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Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer|

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Writer|

| as Mark Canfield|

* The Desired Woman (1927) (story)
* Maybe It's Love (1930)
* Baby Face (1933) (story)
* Crack in the Mirror (1960)

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as Melville Crossman|

* Tenderloin (story) (1928)
* State Street Sadie (story) (1928)
* Thanks a Million (story) (1935)
* A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941)
* Thunder Birds (original story) (1942)
* China Girl (story) (1942)
* The Purple Heart (story) (1944)

as Gregory Rogers|

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* Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925)
* The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)

as self|

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* Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927)
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* Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929)
* Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929)
* Say It with Songs (story) (1929)
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* The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940)
* Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

People|

* Virginia Fox (wife)
* Richard D. Zanuck (son)
* Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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