Across the Pacific (1926 film)

Across the Pacific
Myrna Loy as Roma
Directed by	Roy del Ruth
Produced by	Darryl Zanuck
Written by	Darryl Zanuck (adaptation)
Based on	Across the Pacific  by Charles Blaney
Starring	Monte Blue
Cinematography	Byron Haskin Frank Kesson
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (as A Warner Brothers Production)
Release dates	October 2, 1926 (United States)
Running time	78 minsutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles) with Vitaphone (music score and sound effects)

Across the Pacific^[1] is a lost^[2] 1926 American silent romantic adventure film produced by Warner Bros., directed by Roy del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was based on a turn of the century play by Charles Blaney and J. J. McCloskey. The play had been filmed before in 1914 with Dorothy Dalton.^[3] It is unknown, but the film might have been released with a Vitaphone soundtrack.

Plot

After his father brings disgrace on his family, Monte joins the Spanish–American War and goes with his regiment to the Philippines. Although he has a sweetheart back home, Claire Marsh, Monte is enlisted to romance a half-caste 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 he needs, but not before he is branded a deserter and then has to 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 is reunited.

Cast

• 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

References

1. 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV
2. Across the Pacific at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers 1926
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.

External links

• Across the Pacific at the Internet Movie Database
• Across the Pacific at AllMovie
• lobby poster in French