Blue, White and Perfect

1942
Approved
1 Std. 14 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

IHRE BEWERTUNG

George Reeves, Mary Beth Hughes, Lloyd Nolan, and Helene Reynolds in Blue, White and Perfect (1942)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDetective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.Detective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.Detective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

560

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
This film was released in January of 1942, and the action takes place in 1941. The shipping tag on the large trunk shows the sailing date to Honolulu as Saturday, December 6th, which was the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Patzer
If the smuggled diamonds are supposedly going to German factories, why are they smuggled from New York to Honolulu in the Pacific Theater? Answer, because with the submarine war sinking cargo ships in the Atlantic, it made sense to take the longer route through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific.

Zitate
Michael Shayne: You drive a pawnbroker's bargain!

Verbindungen
Followed by The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)

Soundtracks
(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land
(uncredited)
Written by Daniel Decatur Emmett
Whistled by Michael Shayne

Benutzerrezensionen17

Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Surprisingly Good Detective Tale

Detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a Nazi smuggling ring.

I have never heard of the Michael Shayne series, and I know by starting here I am jumping in the middle. Hopefully I didn't miss much, but the story still makes plenty of sense. And actually, it is really, really good. I get the feeling this was something of a B-picture, but today (2017) it feels more fun and fresh than some of the A-pictures of the time.

It serves as an interesting blend of detective fiction and spycraft, and has the interesting distinction of being set at least partially in Hawaii. As I understand it, the film was released in 1942 but was probably filmed in 1941... thus they had no idea just how crucial Hawaii would be to the World War II story. In fact, if this was filmed prior to Pearl harbor, America was not technically even in the war yet!