Pacific Blackout
1941 film by Ralph Murphy
- December 31, 1941 (1941-12-31)
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Pacific Blackout is a 1941 American mystery thriller film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Robert Preston, Eva Gabor and Martha O'Driscoll.[1] 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
- ^ Parish & Pitts p.362
Bibliography
- Parish, James & Robert & Pitts, Michael R. The Great Spy Pictures. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
- Pacific Blackout at IMDb
- Turner Classic Movies page
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Films directed by Ralph Murphy
- The Big Shot (1931)
- Panama Flo (1932)
- 70,000 Witnesses (1932)
- Strictly Personal (1933)
- Song of the Eagle (1933)
- Golden Harvest (1933)
- Girl Without a Room (1933)
- She Made Her Bed (1934)
- Private Scandal (1934)
- The Great Flirtation (1934)
- The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
- Menace (1934)
- One Hour Late (1934)
- McFadden's Flats (1935)
- Men Without Names (1935)
- Collegiate (1936)
- Florida Special (1936)
- The Man I Marry (1936)
- Top of the Town (1937)
- Partners in Crime (1937)
- Night Club Scandal (1937)
- Our Neighbors – The Carters (1939)
- I Want a Divorce (1940)
- You're the One (1941)
- Las Vegas Nights (1941)
- Glamour Boy (1941)
- Pacific Blackout (1941)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
- Salute for Three (1943)
- Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
- Rainbow Island (1944)
- The Town Went Wild (1944)
- The Man in Half Moon Street (1945)
- Sunbonnet Sue (1945)
- How Doooo You Do!!! (1945)
- The Spirit of West Point (1947)
- Mickey (1948)
- Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949)
- Stage to Tucson (1950)
- Never Trust a Gambler (1951)
- Dick Turpin's Ride (1951)
- Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
- Captain Pirate (1952)
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