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Disc #1 -- They Drive by Night
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Divided Highway: The Story of They Drive by Night
Swingtime in the Movies
Theatrical Trailer
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Spoken Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: Français
Subtitles: Español
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Disc #2 -- Across the Pacific
Waner Night at the Movies
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Warner Night at the Movies
Hollywood Helps the Cause
Breakdowns of 1942
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Spoken Languages: English
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Subtitles: Español
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Disc #3 -- Action in the North Atlantic
Waner Night at the Movies
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Waner Night at the Movies
Credit Where Credit is Due
5/15/1944 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast
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Spoken Languages: English
Subtitles: English
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Subtitles: Español
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Disc #4 -- Passage to Marseille
Waner Night at the Movies
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Warner Night at the Movies
The Free French: Unsung Victors
Breakdowns
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Subtitles: Español
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- Chapters
Disc #1 -- They Drive by Night
1. Credits [1:19]
2. An Accident [2:48]
3. Café's Classy Chassis [3:59]
4. Enter/Exit Farnsworth [5:20]
5. Debt Collection [2:07]
6. The Hitchhiker [4:11]
7. Dead Man's Curve [2:42]
8. Sleeping Arrangements [5:08]
9. Save it For Me [2:14]
10. Calling on Carlsen [5:03]
11. Joe's Not Asking [2:55]
12. Wolf at the Door [4:49]
13. It's a Deal [2:38]
14. Paid in Full [3:02]
15. Paul's Bad Break [4:30]
16. Traffic Manger [3:01]
17. A Night Out [4:52]
18. Anniversary Party [3:48]
19. Dead Drunk [5:19]
20. Widow's Proposition [4:11]
21. Another Woman [2:13]
22. You Made Me Do It [6:09]
23. Telltale Door [3:03]
24. On Trial [3:00]
25. The Doors Made Me Do It [3:15]
26. Minds Made Up [2:41]
27. Cast List [:31]
Disc #2 -- Across the Pacific
1. Credits [:57]
2. Court-Martial [5:16]
3. Travel Plans [2:44]
4. Genoa Maru [3:28]
5. Fellow Passengers [4:18]
6. The Lady is Indisposed [5:53]
7. Bitter and Drunk [5:47]
8. Shadow in a Derby [3:12]
9. Big Things Are Brewing [3:29]
10. Shooting Incidents [4:31]
11. Are You a G-Man? [2:07]
12. Not the Same Man [2:41]
13. Lorenz's Offer [3:42]
14. Girl of Many Colors [3:46]
15. Canal Zone [1:52]
16. His Place to Answer [4:15]
17. Gaining/Giving Confidences [5:39]
18. Missing Ms. Marlow [3:57]
19. Bluff and Counterbluff [3:43]
20. Much Trouble [5:47]
21. Moviehouse Mayhem [3:21]
22. Family Reunions [3:21]
23. The Jump on Joe [4:20]
24. Not Taking Off [3:19]
25. Dishonorable End [2:27]
26. Cast List [1:50]
Disc #3 -- Action in the North Atlantic
1. Credits [1:18]
2. Toothaches and Faith [5:48]
3. Sore Corns For a Reason [3:41]
4. Torpedoed [3:01]
5. Abandon Ship [3:04]
6. Valor Under Fire [4:27]
7. Skipper's Now [3:01]
8. Message For Hitler [3:55]
9. The Jarvises [3:34]
10. Too Talkative [4:36]
11. Signing Up Again [6:21]
12. Newlyweds [3:24]
13. Sailor's Wife [2:51]
14. Boarding the Seawitch [3:00]
15. Gunnery Training [3:04]
16. Convoy Briefing [3:50]
17. Setting Sail [5:39]
18. Our Job [3:47]
19. Two Ships in the Night [3:06]
20. Submarine Attack [3:30]
21. That Was Closer [3:56]
22. Danger on Their Trail [4:38]
23. On Our Own [4:24]
24. Complete Silence [3:59]
25. Catcophany [3:48]
26. Gone to His Head [3:59]
27. Seaplane Attack [3:50]
28. Head On [4:42]
29. Operating Officer [2:39]
30. A Good Sendoff [2:29]
31. Ramming Speed [5:21]
32. American Seamanship [4:34]
Disc #4 -- Passage to Marseille
1. Credits and Foreward [1:54]
2. Bombing Raid [3:29]
3. Hidden Airbase [5:36]
4. Cows in, Planes Out [4:29]
5. Passage to Marseille [5:17]
6. Castaways [5:35]
7. Free Men's Story [6:37]
8. Admitting to the Truth [4:30]
9. French Guyana Horrors [2:04]
10. Grandpere [3:46]
11. Talk of Home [4:41]
12. Silenced by the Mob [3:07]
13. Newlyweds [4:18]
14. Murder Suspect [2:56]
15. Arrested and Sentenced [1:09]
16. Solitary Savagery [2:08]
17. Night of Escape [3:27]
18. One too Many [3:43]
19. Fighting Oath [2:35]
20. Changed Courses [5:06]
21. New Order [5:04]
22. Retaking the Ship [3:51]
23. Air Attack [2:19]
24. Marius and the Enemy Downed [4:27]
25. Assassins [1:55]
26. Return From a Raid [1:55]
27. Birthday Boy [3:30]
28. Fallen Hero [3:42]
29. France Lives [2:51]
- Features
They Drive by Night: Featurette divided highway: the story of They Drive by Night
Musical short Swingtime in the Movies
Theatrical trailer
Across the Pacific: Warner Night at the movies 1942
Short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, short, cartoon and trailers
Featurette Hollywood helps the cause
Studio blooper reel
Action in the North Atlantic: Warner Night at the Movies 1943 short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, short, cartoon and trailers
Featurette credit where credit is due
Audio-only bonus: radio show with George Raft and Raymond Massey
Passage to Marseille: Warner Night at the movies 1944 short subjects gallery with vintage newsreel, shorts, cartoon and trailers
Featurette the free french: unsung victors
Studio blooper reel
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Directors
John Huston
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Producers
Jack Saper
Jerry Wald
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Composers (Music Score)
Adolph Deutsch
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Editors
Frank Magee
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Screen Writers
Richard Macaulay
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Others
Art Director - Robert M. Haas
Art Director - Hugh Reticker, Jr.
Cinematographer - Arthur Edeson
Composer (Music Score) - Adolph Deutsch
Costume Designer - Milo Anderson
Makeup - Perc Westmore
Musical Direction/Supervision - Leo F. Forbstein
Screen Story - Robert Carson
Sound/Sound Designer - Everett A. Brown
Special Effects - Byron Haskin
Special Effects - Richard Van Enger
Special Effects - Willard Van Enger
Although certainly not of the caliber of
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and
"Casablanca" (1942),
"Across the Pacific" remains a fine piece of slam-bang entertainment, Warner Bros.-style. Not that the drama makes that much sense, but the film is so skillfully acted and directed that such complaints become academic.
Humphrey Bogart,
Mary Astor, and
Sydney Greenstreet appear exactly as you have come to expect -- which is as it should be -- but the key character here is
Victor Sen Yung's Joe Totsuiko, one of the era's most treacherous villains. A second-generation immigrant seemingly full of vim and vigor, Totsuiko actually personifies the fate of most Japanese-Americans, who were actively rounded up and interned as filming of
"Across the Pacific" progressed. (According to
Mary Astor, Warner Bros. was forced to endlessly replace Japanese actors and crew members as they were rounded up by the U.S. government, but in reality, most of the original supporting players were either of Chinese or Korean origin.) Audiences in 1942, however, were thus told never to trust the Totsuikos of this world, never mind how all-American they may seem, a regrettable sentiment, but perhaps understandable under the circumstances. Writer
Richard Macauley based his screenplay on Robert Garson's serialized magazine story Aloha Means Goodbye, but the snappy repartee between
Bogart and a very funny
Miss Astor is all
Macauley and adds tremendously to
"Across the Pacific"'s entertainment value. As does
Byron Haskin and
William Van Enger's special effects and cinematographer
Arthur Edeson's fluid camera. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Sydney Greenstreet : Best Acting - National Board of Review, 1942 (Winner)
- Guy Gilpatric : Best Original Story - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1943 (Nominee)
