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Wikipedia article
'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 found guilty for the murder of his partner. Just as he's 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 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.
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