Across the Pacific (1926 film)
| Across the Pacific | |
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Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (as A Warner Brothers Production) | |
Release date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | intertitles) with Vitaphone (music score and sound effects) |
| Budget | $214,000[1] |
| Box office | $352,000[1] |
Across the PacificRoy 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.
Plot
After his father brings disgrace on his family, Monte joins the
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
- 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
According to Warner Bros. records the film earned $252,000 domestically and $100,000 foreign.[1]
Preservation
With no prints of Across the Pacific located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.[6]
See also
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV
- ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ Across the Pacific (1914) at IMDb
- ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Across the Pacific (1926)
- ^ Across the Pacific at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers 1926 Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
External links
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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