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Show rivoli to snow SPY STORY STARTING SUNDAY The stars of "The Maltese Falcon" Fal-con" (remember it!) return to the Rivoli theatre Sunday in another adventure thriller, Warner Bros.' "Across the Pacific." Reuniting Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and Director John Huston, "Across the Pacific" pits Bogart against a ruthless band of would-be Jap saboteurs who plan the destruction of Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. The time is pre-Pearl Harbor and Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) Bo-gart) has just been dishonorably discharged from the U. S. army in which he was a captain. Turned down by the other services and the Canadian army because of his record, Rick heads for the Orient and the Chinese army. He ships on the "Geona Maru," a Japanese vessel. Aboard, he meets Dr. Lorenz (Sydney Greenstreet) and Alberta Marlow (Mary Astor). Lorenz, admittedly ad-mittedly a great admirer of the Japanese, plies Rick with liquor and gets him to reveal his past and also the fact that he knows the details of the Panama Canal defense de-fense installations. When the ship docks in New York, Rick leaves and reports to his superior. It now becomes known that Rick is in the army secret service and trailing Lorenz. En route to the Canal Zone, Rick "sells out" to Lorenz and promises prom-ises him the Canal's defense secrets sec-rets once the boat reaches Panama. Pan-ama. Alberta, herself going to Panama to the Bountiful Plantation Planta-tion there, becomes Rick's self-appointed self-appointed assistant, although unconscious un-conscious of his real identity. They fall in love. In Panama, things begin to pop. Rick turns over certain information informa-tion but Lorenz becomes suspicious of him and Rick is severely caned by Lorenz's aids. Following a telephone tele-phone call, Alberta mysteriously disappears. On a tip from loyal Chinese, Rick heads for the Bountiful Boun-tiful Plantation. Rick next learns that the plantation plan-tation is the secret hide-out of Japanese Ja-panese agents, led by Lorenz, who are plotting the destruction of the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal. Rick realizes he has to act fast and that he does. |