Across the Pacific1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV 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.Across the Pacific (1914) at IMDb 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 (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 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.
Preservation With no prints of Across the Pacific located in any film archives, it is a lost film.Across the Pacific at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers 1926
See also List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features
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