Pacific Blackout is a 1941 American mystery thriller film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Robert Preston, Eva Gabor and Martha O'Driscoll.Parish & Pitts p.362 It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Plot Inventor and engineer Robert Draper is unjustly convicted for the murder of his partner. Just as he is being sent to prison, the prison truck crashes in the midst of a civil defense blackout, propelling him into a search for the real killers who framed him. Czech-American screenwriter Franz Schulz was billed as Francis Spencer for the film.
Cast Robert Preston as Robert Draper Martha O'Driscoll as Mary Jones Philip Merivale as John Runnell Eva Gabor as Marie Duval Louis Jean Heydt as Harold Kermin Thurston Hall as Williams, Civil Defense Official Mary Treen as Irene J. Edward Bromberg as Pickpocket Spencer Charters as Cornelius Cy Kendall as Hotel Clerk Russell Hicks as Commanding Officer Paul Stanton as Judge Clem Bevans as Night-watchman Robert Emmett Keane as Defense Attorney Edwin Maxwell as District attorney Rod Cameron as Pilot unbilled players include John Banner, Monte Blue, Wade Boteler, Ralph Dunn, Bess Flowers, Jack Norton, Betty Farrington and Lee Shumway
References
Bibliography Parish, James & Robert & Pitts, Michael R. The Great Spy Pictures. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
Turner Classic Movies page