Adventure in Panama

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Movie
German title Adventure in Panama
Original title Across the Pacific
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Huston ,
Vincent Sherman
script Richard Macaulay
production Jack Saper ,
Jerry Wald
music Adolph German
camera Arthur Edeson
cut Frank Magee
occupation
synchronization

Adventure in Panama (original title: Across the Pacific ) is an American war film by John Huston and Vincent Sherman from 1942. The film premiered on September 4, 1942. In Germany, the film was first released on August 8, 1946 in the Cinemas shown.

action

U.S. Coastal Artillery Captain Rick Leland is dishonorably discharged from the army for theft in 1941. The Canadian Army also rejects his application. In order to be able to fight against the Japanese, he wants to join the Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek . To do this, he goes on board a Japanese ship, the “Genoa Maru” in Halifax, to travel with her through the Panama Canal to China.

On board, Leland meets the attractive Canadian Alberta Marlow and the sociologist Dr. Lorenz. The scientist admires the Japanese and is therefore not popular in the Philippines, where he lives. Leland makes it clear to him that he hates the Japanese and will fight them. During a stopover in New York, Leland meets Colonel Hart, an intelligence officer to whom he shows himself to be a loyal American. Dr. Lorenz is a well known enemy agent; The secret service, however, is not sure about Marlow. When Leland wants to go back to the ship, he prevents a Filipino from shooting Lorenz, who now owes Leland thanks. New on board is the Japanese-born American Joe Totsuiko.

Once in Panama, the ship is refused passage through the canal. The captain sets out on the long, dangerous journey around Cape Horn . Leland, Marlow and Dr. Lorenz want to travel on with another ship. Several boxes that are supposed to go to a plantation owner named Dan Morton are unloaded. Leland was stationed in the area during his active days. Lorenz asks him for the latest lists of American patrol flights. Since Lorenz can easily find out whether the lists are real or forged, Leland convinces his liaison officer Smith to hand over the real lists. It is December 6, 1941, the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor .

After Leland negotiated the price with Lorenz and gave him the lists, he was knocked down. When he comes to, Lorenz and Marlow have disappeared. He notifies Smith so he can change the flights. Then he makes his way to the plantation. There Leland sees a torpedo bomber being loaded. He is captured and taken to the plantation, where he meets Lorenz, Marlow and Totsuiko again. Leland finds out that Marlow is the daughter of plantation owner Morton.

Lorenz tells Leland that he and his accomplice killed Totsuiko Smith before he could update the flight lists. The plan now is to bomb the locks of the Panama Canal. The torpedo bomber is almost ready to go when Leland manages to overpower Totsuiko. Morton is killed in the fight. Leland can use a machine gun to shoot down the starting bomber, which is controlled by the Japanese prince. A firefight breaks out between Leland and Lorenz's men, which Leland wins. Defeated Lorenz tries to kill himself with Seppuku . But he loses his nerve and begs Leland to shoot him. Leland refuses on the grounds that Lorenz has an appointment with the secret service.

background

Since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the location of the film attack had to be moved to the Panama Canal, as Leland could not prevent the real Japanese attack and this might have irritated the American viewers. The move to the Panama Canal was logical in that the US forces protected the canal with strong defensive weapons for sea and air strikes. The original title of the film, Across the Pacific , was not changed, however, and the protagonists do not come into contact with the Pacific Ocean.

Vincent Sherman shot the second part of the film because John Huston was called up to the US Army to make documentaries there. The film was Huston's fourth directorial work. Byron Haskin created the special effects . The former cameraman switched to directing a year later. The film's musical director was Oscar winner Leo F. Forbstein. Additional pieces of music for the film were composed by Max Steiner and Heinz Roemheld . The later director Don Siegel was also involved as a technician .

Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Mary Astor had previously filmed The Falcon's Trail with John Huston . In this film, too, the later three-time Oscar winner Adolph Deutsch (together with the musical director Leo F. Forbstein) was the composer and Arthur Edeson was the cameraman.

Keye Luke can be seen in a small role as the steamship's officer . Richard Loo played first officer Miyuma.

In the German dubbing, Bogart / Leland gives false information about the armament of the American destroyer (4x12.5cm, 1x8.8cm flak). In fact, and correctly said in the original, the Flushdecker destroyers carried 4x10.2 cm and 1x7.6 cm flak.

Reviews

"Melodramatic, unrealistic spy film with a historically conditioned patriotic background, which, however, offers attractive entertainment thanks to the tight direction and the brilliant cast," said the lexicon of international films . For Cinema , the film "[b] is an exciting thing for the bizarre finale".

"Despite some discrepancies," according to the television magazine Prisma , director John Huston "[shot] an entertaining espionage thriller in which Humphrey Bogart was able to demonstrate his acting talent in a combative role."

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1977 by Bavaria Atelier GmbH, Munich.

role actor Voice actor
Rick Leland Humphrey Bogart Joachim Kemmer
Alberta Marlow Mary Astor Ursula Heyer
Dr. Lorenz Sydney Greenstreet Curt Ackermann
Smith Charles Halton Leo Bardischewski
Joe Totsuiko Victor Sen Yung Elmar Wepper
Sugi Roland Got Niko Macoulis
Mr. Littlejohn Sr. Paul Stanton Rudiger Evers
Mr. Belenson Morgan Wallace Eberhard Mellies
Billings Charles Arnt Frank Ciazynski

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flush Decker Home Page. In: destroyerhistory.org. Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Adventure in Panama. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ See cinema.de
  4. ↑ See prisma.de
  5. ↑ Adventure in Panama. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 1, 2017 .